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Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at root s=8 TeV

NázevTitle
Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at root s=8 TeVIdentification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at root s=8 TeV
Druh výsledkuResult type
Článek v časopiseJournal article
AutořiAuthors
G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, K. Augsten, D. Caforio, P. Gallus, J. Guenther, Z. Hubáček, J. Jakůbek, Z. Kohout, M. Myška, S. Pospíšil, F. Seifert, V. Šimák, T. Slavíček, K. Smolek, M. Solar, J. Šolc, A. Sopczak, B. Sopko, V. Sopko, M. Suk, D. Tureček, V. Vacek, M. Vlasak, P. Vokáč, Z. Vykydal, M. Zeman
DOIDOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3978-z
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
European Physical Journal C. 2016, 76(3), ISSN 1434-6044.
RokYear
2016
JazykLanguage
eng
WoSWoS
000375303400005
ScopusScopus
2-s2.0-84961620256
RIVRIV
RIV/68407700:21220/16:00309052!RIV17-MSM-21220___
ProjektProject
Zkoumání mikrosvěta s využitím infrastruktury CERNInvestigation of the Microworld using the CERN Infrastructure; CERN-CZ - Výzkumná infrastruktura pro experimenty v CERN - LM2015058 (2016–2019)CERN-CZ - Výzkumná infrastruktura pro experimenty v CERN - LM2015058 (2016–2019)

AbstraktAbstract

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 root 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.

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 root 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.