English

Flavor tagging TeV jets for BSM and QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a new scheme for tagging high-pTp_{T} bottom and charm jets using energetic muons. Contemporary track-based bb tags lose their ability to reject light jet background as jet pTO(TeV)p_{T}\rightarrow\mathcal{O}(\mathrm{TeV}), where the massive boost exposes fundamental limits in tracking resolution. For our "μx\mu_{x}" tag, the signal efficiency and light jet rejection is robust versus pTp_{T}. In the tested regime (jet pT[0.5,2.1]p_{T}\in[\mathrm{0.5,2.1}] TeV), μx\mu_{x} tags 14%\sim14\% of bb jets, 6.5%\sim6.5\% of cc jets and 0.65%\sim0.65\% of light jets. Since μx\mu_{x} tagging should be immediately useful in a searches for heavy resonances, we test it with a typical dijet search --- a heavy, leptophobic ZZ^{\prime}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.07551,
  title  = {Flavor tagging TeV jets for BSM and QCD},
  author = {Keith Pedersen and Zack Sullivan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07551},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015. 7 pages, 4 figures

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