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Jet substructures of boosted polarized hadronic tops

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-06 v1

Abstract

We study jet substructures of a boosted polarized top quark, which undergoes the hadronic decay tbudˉt\to b u\bar d, in the perturbative QCD framework, focusing on the energy profile and the differential energy profile. These substructures are factorized into the convolution of a hard top-quark decay kernel with a bottom-quark jet function and a WW-boson jet function, where the latter is further factorized into the convolution of a hard WW-boson decay kernel with two light-quark jet functions. Computing the hard kernels to leading order in QCD and including the resummation effect in the jet functions, we show that the differential jet energy profile is a useful observable for differentiating the helicity of a boosted hadronic top quark: a right-handed top jet exhibits quick descent of the differential energy profile with the inner test cone radius rr, which is attributed to the \mboxVA\mbox{V-A} structure of weak interaction and the dead-cone effect associated with the WW-boson jet. The above helicity differentiation may help to reveal the chiral structure of physics beyond the Standard Model at high energies.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08675,
  title  = {Jet substructures of boosted polarized hadronic tops},
  author = {Yoshio Kitadono and Hsiang-nan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08675},
  year   = {2016}
}

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24 pages, 17 figures