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Identification techniques for highly boosted W bosons that decay into hadrons

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-12-10 v2

Abstract

In searches for new physics in the energy regime of the LHC, it is becoming increasingly important to distinguish single-jet objects that originate from the merging of the decay products of W bosons produced with high transverse momenta from jets initiated by single partons. Algorithms are defined to identify such W jets for different signals of interest, using techniques that are also applicable to other decays of bosons to hadrons that result in a single jet, such as those from highly boosted Z and Higgs bosons. The efficiency for tagging W jets is measured in data collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. The performance of W tagging in data is compared with predictions from several Monte Carlo simulators.

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@article{arxiv.1410.4227,
  title  = {Identification techniques for highly boosted W bosons that decay into hadrons},
  author = {CMS Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4227},
  year   = {2014}
}

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