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Jet flavour tagging is crucial in experimental high-energy physics. A tagging algorithm, DeepJetTransformer, is presented, which exploits a transformer-based neural network that is substantially faster to train than state-of-the-art graph…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-11 Freya Blekman , Florencia Canelli , Alexandre De Moor , Kunal Gautam , Armin Ilg , Anna Macchiolo , Eduardo Ploerer

In this paper we introduce a new approach to study jet substructure in the center-of-mass frame of the jet. We demonstrate that it can be used to discriminate the boosted heavy particles from the QCD jets and the method is complimentary to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Chunhui Chen

We apply gradient boosting machine learning techniques to the problem of hadronic jet substructure recognition using classical subjettiness variables available within a common parameterized detector simulation package DELPHES. Per-jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-25 Petr Baroň , Jiří Kvita , Radek Přívara , Jan Tomeček , Rostislav Vodák

Machine learning methods incorporating deep neural networks have been the subject of recent proposals for new hadronic resonance taggers. These methods require training on a dataset produced by an event generator where the true class labels…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-25 James Barnard , Edmund Noel Dawe , Matthew J. Dolan , Nina Rajcic

We briefly review common tools and methods to identify boosted, hadronically decaying top quarks at the LHC experiments. This includes generic jet substructure variables, specific top identification algorithms, and recent developments in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-15 Gregor Kasieczka

We explicitly study how jet substructure taggers act on a set of signal and background events. We focus on two-pronged hadronic decay of a boosted Z boson. The background to this process comes from QCD jets with masses of the order of m_Z.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-30 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Sebastian Sapeta

We introduce a novel jet substructure method which exploits the variation of observables with respect to a sampling of phase-space boundaries quantified by the variability. We apply this technique to identify boosted W boson and top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Yang-Ting Chien , Alex Emerman , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Samuel Meehan , Zachery Montague

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

A method is introduced for distinguishing top jets (boosted, hadronically decaying top quarks) from light quark and gluon jets using jet substructure. The procedure involves parsing the jet cluster to resolve its subjets, and then imposing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David E. Kaplan , Keith Rehermann , Matthew D. Schwartz , Brock Tweedie

We introduce a new and highly efficient tagger for hadronically decaying top quarks, based on a deep neural network working with Lorentz vectors and the Minkowski metric. With its novel machine learning setup and architecture it allows us…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Anja Butter , Gregor Kasieczka , Tilman Plehn , Michael Russell

We propose a novel model-independent method to search for W' bosons at the Large Hadron Collider by looking at dijets where one jet is identified as a boosted-top jet and another jet is tagged as a boosted-bottom jet. Performing a detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Daniel Duffty , Zack Sullivan

We present a new technique for distinguishing the hadronic decays of boosted heavy particles from QCD backgrounds based on wavelet transforms. As an initial exploration, we illustrate the technique in the particular case of hadronic $W$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Vikram Rentala , William Shepherd , Tim M. P. Tait

We conduct a detailed exploration of charged Higgs boson masses $M_{H^{\pm}}$ within the range of $100-190~GeV$. This investigation is grounded in the benchmark points that comply with experimental constraints, allowing us to systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-19 Ijaz Ahmed , Abdul Quddus , Jamil Muhammad , M. A. Arroyo-Ure

We introduce a novel approach to jet tagging and classification through the use of techniques inspired by computer vision. Drawing parallels to the problem of facial recognition in images, we define a jet-image using calorimeter towers as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-09 Josh Cogan , Michael Kagan , Emanuel Strauss , Ariel Schwartzman

We apply computer vision with deep learning -- in the form of a convolutional neural network (CNN) -- to build a highly effective boosted top tagger. Previous work (the "DeepTop" tagger of Kasieczka et al) has shown that a CNN-based top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Sebastian Macaluso , David Shih

We apply both cut-based and machine learning techniques using the same inputs to the challenge of hadronic jet substructure recognition, utilizing classical subjettiness variables within the Delphes parameterized detector simulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Jiří Kvita , Petr Baroň , Monika Machalová , Radek Přívara , Rostislav Vodák , Jan Tomeček

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

Jet tagging has become an essential tool for new physics searches at the high-energy frontier. For jets that contain energetic charged leptons we introduce Feature Extended Supervised Tagging (FEST) which, in addition to jet substructure,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

The Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) will probe unprecedented energy regimes, enabling direct searches for new elementary particles at a scale of tens of TeV. FCC-hh is currently in the planning stage, and one of its primary physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Sanchari Bhattacharyya , Biplob Bhattacherjee , Camellia Bose , Debtosh Chowdhury , Swagata Mukherjee

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