Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)108
Keywords
QCD Phenomenology; Jets
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Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-05ER-41360]
- DOE Early Career research program [DE-FG02-11ER-41741]
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-09-BLAN-0060]
- EU ITN grant LHCPhenoNet [PITN-GA-2010-264564]
- MISTI global seed funds
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development Innovation
- CERN TH division
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We show how generalized energy correlation functions can be used as a powerful probe of jet substructure. These correlation functions are based on the energies and pair-wise angles of particles within a jet, with (N + 1)-point correlators sensitive to N-prong substructure. Unlike many previous jet substructure methods, these correlation functions do not require the explicit identification of subjet regions. In addition, the correlation functions are better probes of certain soft and collinear features that are masked by other methods. We present three Monte Carlo case studies to illustrate the utility of these observables: 2-point correlators for quark/gluon discrimination, 3-point correlators for boosted W/Z/Higgs boson identification, and 4-point correlators for boosted top quark identification. For quark/gluon discrimination, the 2-point correlator is particularly powerful, as can be understood via a next-to-leading logarithmic calculation. For boosted 2-prong resonances the benefit depends on the mass of the resonance.
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