The Use of Minimal Spanning Trees in Particle Physics
Applications
2017-03-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
Minimal spanning trees (MSTs) have been used in cosmology and astronomy to distinguish distributions of points in a multi-dimensional space. They are essentially unknown in particle physics, however. We briefly define MSTs and illustrate their properties through a series of examples. We show how they might be applied to study a typical event sample from a collider experiment and conclude that MSTs may prove useful in distinguishing different classes of events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.04772,
title = {The Use of Minimal Spanning Trees in Particle Physics},
author = {Jessica Lovelace Rainbolt and Michael Schmitt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04772},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
29 pages, 30 figures