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Jet angularities are a class of jet substructure observables where a continuous parameter is introduced in order to interpolate between different classic observables such as the jet mass and jet broadening. We consider jet angularities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-29 Zhong-Bo Kang , Kyle Lee , Xiaohui Liu , Felix Ringer

We evaluate the phenomenological applicability of the dynamical grooming technique, introduced in [1], to boosted W and top tagging at LHC conditions. An extension of our method intended for multi-prong decays with an internal mass scale,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Alba Soto-Ontoso , Konrad Tywoniuk

We investigate the medium modifications of momentum splitting fraction and groomed jet radius with both dynamical grooming and soft drop algorithms in heavy-ion collisions. In the calculation, the partonic spectrum of initial hard…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Lei Wang , Jin-Wen Kang , Qing Zhang , Shuwan Shen , Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

We present a comprehensive study of jet substructure modifications in high-energy heavy-ion collisions using both inclusive jets and $\gamma$-tagged jets, based on a multi-stage jet evolution model within the Monte Carlo framework JETSCAPE.…

In this paper, we study the fragmentation of a heavy quark into a jet near threshold, meaning that final state jet carries most of the energy of the fragmenting heavy quark. Using the heavy quark fragmentation function, we simultaneously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-13 Lin Dai , Chul Kim , Adam K. Leibovich

We provide a quantum field theory based description of the nonperturbative effects from hadronization for soft drop groomed jet mass distributions using the soft-collinear effective theory and the coherent branching formalism. There are two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 André H. Hoang , Sonny Mantry , Aditya Pathak , Iain W. Stewart

The two-prong structure related to the leading subjets inside a reconstructed jet opens new avenues toward precision constraints on the in-medium modification of parton showers. In this talk, we present the first resummed calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-11 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

Jet substructure provides a powerful probe of partonic interactions within the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, we present a systematic theoretical study of the groomed substructures for both inclusive jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Sa Wang , Shuang Li , Jin-Wen Kang , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

We present results on novel analytic calculations to describe invariant mass distributions of QCD jets with three substructure algorithms: trimming, pruning and the mass-drop taggers. These results not only lead to considerable insight into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Mrinal Dasgupta , Simone Marzani , Gavin P. Salam

Hard splittings in the evolution of a jet may be modified by the presence of a dense strongly interacting medium. Grooming procedures can be used to isolate such hard components of a jet and allows one to focus on the two subjets resulting…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Harry Arthur Andrews

A method is developed for calculating the jet mass distribution at hadron colliders using an expansion about the kinematic threshold. In particular, we consider the mass distribution of jets of size R produced in association with a hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Yang-Ting Chien , Randall Kelley , Matthew D. Schwartz , Hua Xing Zhu

We introduce a new jet substructure technique called Recursive Soft Drop, which generalizes the Soft Drop algorithm to have multiple grooming layers. Like the original Soft Drop method, this new recursive variant traverses a jet clustering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Frédéric A. Dreyer , Lina Necib , Gregory Soyez , Jesse Thaler

Measurements of jet substructure in heavy-ion collisions may provide key insight to the nature of jet quenching in the quark-gluon plasma. Jet grooming techniques from high-energy physics have been applied to heavy-ion collisions in order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-03 James Mulligan , Mateusz Ploskon

We present a resummation valid to next-to leading logarithmic accuracy of the non-global and clustering effects in groomed (with modified mass drop tagger) multi-pronged observables. These effects are universal in the sense that they depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Duff Neill

We consider the mass distribution of QCD jets after the application of jet substructure methods, specifically the mass-drop tagger, pruning, trimming and their variants. In contrast to most current studies employing Monte Carlo methods, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 Mrinal Dasgupta , Alessandro Fregoso , Simone Marzani , Alexander Powling

We develop a factorization framework to compute the double differential cross section in soft drop groomed jet mass and groomed jet radius. We describe the effective theories in the large, intermediate, and small groomed jet radius regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Aditya Pathak , Iain W. Stewart , Varun Vaidya , Lorenzo Zoppi

Calculating the distribution of jet masses in high-energy collisions is challenging because fixed-order perturbation theory breaks down near the peak region, and because multiple scales complicate the resummation. To avoid using a jet veto,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Randall Kelley , Matthew D. Schwartz , Hua Xing Zhu

Jets with a large radius $R\gtrsim 1$ and grooming algorithms are widely used to fully capture the decay products of boosted heavy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Unlike most discriminating variables used in such studies, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Benjamin Nachman , Pascal Nef , Ariel Schwartzman , Maximilian Swiatlowski , Chaowaroj Wanotayaroj

Jet substructure tools have proven useful in a number of high-energy particle-physics studies. A particular case is the discrimination, or tagging, between a boosted jet originated from an electroweak boson (signal), and a standard QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 Davide Napoletano , Gregory Soyez

We propose a new class of infrared-collinear (IRC) and Sudakov safe observables with an associated jet grooming technique that removes dynamically soft and large angle branches. It is based on identifying the hardest branch in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Alba Soto-Ontoso , Konrad Tywoniuk