This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20fb−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.

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., et al. (2016). Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s = 8 TeV. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 76(3), 154 [10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3978-z].

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

F. Ceradini;B. Di Micco;R. Di Nardo;D. Orestano;F. Petrucci;D. Puddu;G. Salamanna;M. Sessa;C. Taccini;
2016-01-01

Abstract

This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20fb−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.
2016
Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., et al. (2016). Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s = 8 TeV. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 76(3), 154 [10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3978-z].
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