Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS collaboration, (2016) Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s = 8 TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76 (3). a154. ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20.3 fb −¹ of proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 8 TeV. A range of techniques for optimising the signal jet mass resolution are combined with various jet substructure variables. The results of these studies in Monte Carlo simulations show that a simple pairwise combination of groomed jet mass and one substructure variable can provide a 50 % efficiency for identifying W bosons with transverse momenta larger than 200 GeV while maintaining multijet background efficiencies of 2–4 % for jets with the same transverse momentum. These signal and background efficiencies are confirmed in data for a selection of tagging techniques.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC0770 Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity > QC0793 Elementary particle physics
Depositing User:	Lily Asquith
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2016 12:51
Last Modified:	11 Apr 2017 11:00
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/62995

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