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Factorization for substructures of boosted Higgs jets

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-06-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a perturbative QCD factorization formula for substructures of an energetic Higgs jet, taking the energy profile resulting from the HbbˉH\to b\bar b decay as an example. The formula is written as a convolution of a hard Higgs decay kernel with two bb-quark jet functions and a soft function that links the colors of the two bb quarks. We derive an analytical expression to approximate the energy profile within a boosted Higgs jet, which significantly differs from those of ordinary QCD jets. This formalism also extends to boosted WW and ZZ bosons in their hadronic decay modes, allowing an easy and efficient discrimination of fat jets produced from different processes.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06368,
  title  = {Factorization for substructures of boosted Higgs jets},
  author = {Joshua Isaacson and Hsiang-nan Li and Zhao Li and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06368},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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