Buckets of Tops
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-15 v1
Abstract
Reconstructing hadronically decaying top quarks is a key challenge at the LHC, affecting a long list of Higgs analyses and new physics searches. We propose a new method of collecting jets in buckets, corresponding to top quarks and initial state radiation. This method is particularly well suited for moderate transverse momenta of the top quark, closing the gap between top taggers and traditional top reconstruction. Applying it to searches for supersymmetric top squarks we illustrate the power of buckets.
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@article{arxiv.1302.6238,
title = {Buckets of Tops},
author = {Matthew R. Buckley and Tilman Plehn and Michihisa Takeuchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6238},
year = {2015}
}
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14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables