Jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider: a review of recent advances in theory and machine learning

AJ Larkoski, I Moult, B Nachman - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Jet substructure has emerged to play a central role at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
where it has provided numerous innovative new ways to search for new physics and to …

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, BK Heltsley, R Vogt… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
A golden age for heavy-quarkonium physics dawned a decade ago, initiated by the
confluence of exciting advances in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and an explosion of …

General-purpose event generators for LHC physics

A Buckley, J Butterworth, S Gieseke, D Grellscheid… - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
We review the physics basis, main features and use of general-purpose Monte Carlo event
generators for the simulation of proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider …

N-jettiness subtractions for NNLO QCD calculations

JR Gaunt, M Stahlhofen, FJ Tackmann… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We present a subtraction method utilizing the N-jettiness observable, TN, to
perform QCD calculations for arbitrary processes at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) …

Jettiness: An Inclusive Event Shape to Veto Jets

IW Stewart, FJ Tackmann, WJ Waalewijn - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Jet vetoes are essential in many analyses at the LHC and Tevatron. Typical signals have a
specific num<? format?> ber of hard jets or leptons, while backgrounds have additional jets …

Thrust at with power corrections and a precision global fit for

R Abbate, M Fickinger, AH Hoang, V Mateu… - Physical Review D …, 2011 - APS
We give a factorization formula for the e+ e-thrust distribution d σ/d τ with τ= 1-T based on
the soft-collinear effective theory. The result is applicable for all τ, ie in the peak, tail, and far …

Factorization at the LHC: From parton distribution functions to initial state jets

IW Stewart, FJ Tackmann, WJ Waalewijn - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2010 - APS
We study proton-(anti) proton collisions at the LHC or Tevatron in the presence of
experimental restrictions on the hadronic final state and for generic parton momentum …

Analytic boosted boson discrimination

AJ Larkoski, I Moult, D Neill - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract Observables which discriminate boosted topologies from massive QCD jets are of
great importance for the success of the jet substructure program at the Large Hadron …

Renormalization-group improved predictions for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders

V Ahrens, A Ferroglia, M Neubert, BD Pecjak… - Journal of High Energy …, 2010 - Springer
Precision predictions for phenomenologically interesting observables such as the\(t\bar {t}\)
invariant mass distribution and forward-backward asymmetry in top-quark pair production at …

A precise determination of αs from LEP thrust data using effective field theory

T Becher, MD Schwartz - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Starting from a factorization theorem in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, the thrust distribution
in e+ e− collisions is calculated including resummation of the next-to-next-to-next-to leading …