Jet areas as a tool for background subtraction
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-05-19 v1
Abstract
In all modern hadronic colliders, jets recieve a large contribution from a soft background: pileup in the case of proton-proton collisions at the LHC, or the underlying event for heavy-ion collisions at RHIC or the LHC. In these proceedings, we present a generic and simple method, based on jet areas, to subtract the contribution of the soft background from the jets. This allows for more precise kinematic reconstruction of jets in dense environments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0905.2851,
title = {Jet areas as a tool for background subtraction},
author = {Gregory Soyez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2851},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the 25th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, February 1-8, 2009