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Distinguishing hadronically decaying boosted top quarks from massive QCD jets is an important challenge at the Large Hadron Collider. In this paper we use the power counting method to study jet substructure observables designed for top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-23 Andrew J. Larkoski , Ian Moult , Duff Neill

Top taggers which identify and reconstruct boosted top quarks have been established as novel tools for a multitude of LHC analyses. We show how single top production in association with a light-flavor or bottom jet can be observed in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Felix Kling , Tilman Plehn , Michihisa Takeuchi

At the LHC, tagging boosted heavy particle resonances which decay hadronically, such as top quarks and Higgs bosons, can play an essential role in new physics searches. In events with high multiplicity, however, the standard approach to tag…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Koichi Hamaguchi , Seng Pei Liew , Martin Stoll

Studies of highly-boosted top quarks produced inclusively in pp collisions at 14 TeV are discussed. The hadronic decays of boosted top quarks was studied in a data-driven approach by analysing shapes of jet-mass distributions. Using Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-02 B. Auerbach , S. V. Chekanov , N. Kidonakis

In this paper we study the identification of the b quark inside a boosted hadronically decaying top quark in the center-of-mass frame of the jet. We demonstrate that the method can be used to greatly reduce the QCD jet background even in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-25 Chunhui Chen

Interest in deep learning in collider physics has been growing in recent years, specifically in applying these methods in jet classification, anomaly detection, particle identification etc. Among those, jet classification using neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Camellia Bose , Amit Chakraborty , Shreecheta Chowdhury , Saunak Dutta

We present a new tagger which aims at identifying partially reconstructed objects, in which only some of the constituents are collected in a single jet. As an example, we focus on top decays in which either part of the hadronically decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 Marat Freytsis , Tomer Volansky , Jonathan R. Walsh

Studies of the boosted sector in top-quark physics have known a fast-growing development with the arrival of high-energy data at LHC. This short review summarizes the current status of the boosted top-tagging techniques in ATLAS and CMS and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-06 Julien Caudron

Boosted top quark tagging is one of the challenging, and at the same time exciting, tasks in high energy physics experiments, in particular in the exploration of new physics signals at the LHC. Several techniques have already been developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Amit Chakraborty , Amandip De , Rohini M. Godbole , Monoranjan Guchait

We study the top quark pair events production in $pp$ collisions in the $\ell$+jets channel at the LHC energy of $\sqrt{s} = 14$ TeV for Standard Model as well as new physics processes. We explore the usage of semi-boosted topologies where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-02 J. Pácalt , J. Kvita

A measurement is reported of the jet mass distribution in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks produced in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-27 CMS Collaboration

The performance of taggers for hadronically decaying top quarks and $W$ bosons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. A set of techniques based on jet shape…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-05 ATLAS Collaboration

An overview of analyses using data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and 8 TeV of proton-proton collisions at the LHC is presented. These analyses use boosted techniques to search for new phenomena involving top quarks and to measure the production of top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Johannes Erdmann

A new algorithm for the identification of boosted, hadronically decaying, heavy particles at the LHC is presented. The algorithm is based on the known procedure of jet clustering with variable distance parameter $R$ and adapts the jet size…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-10 Tobias Lapsien , Roman Kogler , Johannes Haller

We show how the recently proposed XCone jet algorithm smoothly interpolates between resolved and boosted kinematics. When using standard jet algorithms to reconstruct the decays of hadronic resonances like top quarks and Higgs bosons, one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Jesse Thaler , Thomas F. Wilkason

Identification of boosted, hadronically-decaying top quarks is a problem of central importance for physics goals of the Large Hadron Collider. We present a theoretical analysis of top quark tagging, establishing zeroth-order, minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 Andrew J. Larkoski

We study the heavy charged Higgs boson (from 800 GeV to 1500 GeV in this study) in production associated with a top quark at the LHC with the collision energy $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. Such a heavy charged Higgs boson can dominantly decay into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Shuo Yang , Qi-Shu Yan

Machine learning techniques are used for treating jets as images to explore the performance of boosted top quark tagging. Tagging performances are studied in both hadronic and leptonic channels of top quark decay, employing a convolutional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-22 Soham Bhattacharya , Monoranjan Guchait , Aravind H. Vijay

The techniques used to study top quarks at hadron colliders are presented. The analyses that discovered the top quark are described, with emphasis on the techniques used to tag b-quark jets in candidate events. The most recent measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Pekka K. Sinervo