Jet substructures of boosted polarized hadronic tops
Abstract
We study jet substructures of a boosted polarized top quark, which undergoes the hadronic decay , 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 -boson jet function, where the latter is further factorized into the convolution of a hard -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 , which is attributed to the structure of weak interaction and the dead-cone effect associated with the -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