Aad, G;
Abbott, B;
Abdallah, J;
Abdinov, O;
Aben, R;
Abolins, M;
AbouZeid, OS;
... Zwalinski, L; + view all
(2016)
Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2016
, Article 93. 10.1007/JHEP06(2016)093.
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Abstract
This paper presents studies of the performance of several jet-substructure techniques, which are used to identify hadronically decaying top quarks with high transverse momentum contained in large-radius jets. The efficiency of identifying top quarks is measured using a sample of top-quark pairs and the rate of wrongly identifying jets from other quarks or gluons as top quarks is measured using multijet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 20.3 fb−1 of 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Predictions from Monte Carlo simulations are found to provide an accurate description of the performance. The techniques are compared in terms of signal efficiency and background rejection using simulations, covering a larger range in jet transverse momenta than accessible in the dataset. Additionally, a novel technique is developed that is optimized to reconstruct top quarks in events with many jets.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP06(2016)093 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)093 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1505058 |
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