Identification of heavy, energetic, hadronically decaying particles using machine-learning techniques

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
At the CERN LHC [1], an efficient classification of hadronic decays of heavy standard-model
(SM) particles (objects) that are reconstructed within a single jet would provide a significant …

Identification techniques for highly boosted W bosons that decay into hadrons

CMS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4227, 2014 - arxiv.org
In searches for new physics in the energy regime of the LHC, it is becoming increasingly
important to distinguish single-jet objects that originate from the merging of the decay …

Towards an understanding of the correlations in jet substructure: Report of BOOST2013, hosted by the University of Arizona, 12th–16th of August 2013

D Adams, A Arce, L Asquith, M Backovic… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
Over the past decade, a large number of jet substructure observables have been proposed
in the literature, and explored at the LHC experiments. Such observables attempt to utilize …

Jet constituents for deep neural network based top quark tagging

J Pearkes, W Fedorko, A Lister, C Gay - arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02124, 2017 - arxiv.org
Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from
top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using …

Performance of top-quark and W W-boson tagging with ATLAS in Run 2 of the LHC

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, O Abdinov… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
The performance of identification algorithms (“taggers”) for hadronically decaying top quarks
and W bosons in pp collisions at ss= 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large …

Top tagging: a method for identifying boosted hadronically decaying top quarks

DE Kaplan, K Rehermann, MD Schwartz, B Tweedie - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
A method is introduced for distinguishing top jets (boosted, hadronically decaying top
quarks) from light-quark and gluon jets using jet substructure. The procedure involves …

End-to-end jet classification of quarks and gluons with the CMS Open Data

M Andrews, J Alison, S An, B Burkle, S Gleyzer… - Nuclear instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
We describe the construction of novel end-to-end jet image classifiers to discriminate quark-
versus gluon-initiated jets using the simulated CMS Open Data. These multi-detector images …

Jet flavor classification in high-energy physics with deep neural networks

D Guest, J Collado, P Baldi, SC Hsu, G Urban… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Classification of jets as originating from light-flavor or heavy-flavor quarks is an important
task for inferring the nature of particles produced in high-energy collisions. The large and …

Uncovering latent jet substructure

BM Dillon, DA Faroughy, JF Kamenik - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We apply techniques from Bayesian generative statistical modeling to uncover hidden
features in jet substructure observables that discriminate between different a priori unknown …

Performance of jet substructure techniques for large-R jets in proton-proton collisions at TeV using the ATLAS detector

G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah… - Journal of High Energy …, 2013 - Springer
A bstract This paper presents the application of a variety of techniques to study jet
substructure. The performance of various modified jet algorithms, or jet grooming …