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A method for correcting the substructure of multiprong jets using the Lund jet plane

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2025-11-18 v2

Abstract

Many analyses at the CERN LHC exploit the substructure of jets to identify heavy resonances produced with high momenta that decay into multiple quarks and/or gluons. This paper presents a new technique for correcting the substructure of simulated large-radius jets from multiprong decays. The technique is based on reclustering the jet constituents into several subjets such that each subjet represents a single prong, and separately correcting the radiation pattern in the Lund jet plane of each subjet using a correction derived from data. The data presented here correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb1^{-1} collected by the CMS experiment between 2016-2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The correction procedure improves the agreement between data and simulation for several different substructure observables of multiprong jets. This technique establishes, for the first time, a robust calibration for the substructure of jets with four or more prongs, enabling future measurements and searches for new phenomena containing these signatures.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2507.07775,
  title  = {A method for correcting the substructure of multiprong jets using the Lund jet plane},
  author = {CMS Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07775},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/JME-23-001 (CMS Public Pages)

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