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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/032
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Jets; Hadronic Colliders
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- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-05-JCJC-0046-01]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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We present a strategy to quantify the performance of jet definitions in kinematic reconstruction tasks. It is designed to make use exclusively of physical observables, in contrast to previous techniques which often used unphysical Monte Carlo partons as a reference. It is furthermore independent of the detailed shape of the kinematic distributions. We analyse the performance of 5 jet algorithms over a broad range of jet-radii, for sources of quark jets and gluon jets, spanning the energy scales of interest at the LHC, both with and without pileup. The results allow one to identify optimal jet definitions for the various scenarios. They confirm that the use of a small jet radius (R similar or equal to 0.5) for quark-induced jets at moderate energy scales, O(100 GeV), is a good choice. However, for gluon jets and in general for TeV scales, there are significant benefits to be had from using larger radii, up to R greater than or similar to 1. This has implications for the span of jet-definitions that the LHC experiments should provide as defaults for searches and other physics analyses.
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