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Discriminating between quark- and gluon-initiated jets has long been a central focus of jet substructure, leading to the introduction of numerous observables and calculations to high perturbative accuracy. At the same time, there have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Ian Moult , Benjamin Nachman , Stefan Prestel

The CMS experiment makes use of a large variety of algorithms to identify the origin of particle jets measured in the detector. Through the study of jet substructure properties, jets originating from quarks, gluons, W/Z/Higgs bosons, top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-14 Dennis Schwarz

We present a comprehensive comparison of convolutional and transformer-based models for distinguishing quark and gluon jets using simulated jet images from Pythia 8. By encoding jet substructure into a three-channel representation of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-02-03 Daeun Kim , Jiwon Lee , Wonjun Jeong , Hyeongwoo Noh , Giyeong Kim , Jaeyoon Cho , Geonhee Kwak , Seunghwan Yang , MinJung Kweon

We describe a novel application of the end-to-end deep learning technique to the task of discriminating top quark-initiated jets from those originating from the hadronization of a light quark or a gluon. The end-to-end deep learning…

The modification of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Yueyang Ying

Deep learning techniques have shown the capability to identify the degree of energy loss of high-energy jets traversing hot QCD medium on a jet-by-jet basis. The average amount of quenching of quark and gluon jets in hot QCD medium actually…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Yi-Lun Du , Daniel Pablos , Konrad Tywoniuk

Recent jet and jet substructure measurements at the LHC, and of machine-learning-based tagging techniques are presented using proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. These…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-10 Meena Meena

Discriminating quark and gluon jets is a long-standing topic in collider phenomenology. In this paper, we address this question using the Lund jet plane substructure technique introduced in recent years. We present two complementary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Frederic Dreyer , Gregory Soyez , Adam Takacs

As most target final states for searches and measurements at the Large Hadron Collider have a particular quark/gluon composition, tools for distinguishing quark- from gluon-initiated jets can be very powerful. In addition to the difficulty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-16 Samuel Bright-Thonney , Benjamin Nachman

The separate study of quark and gluon jets is vital for the interpretation of multiple variables behaviour observed in both high-energy hadron and heavy-ion collisions in the present and future experiments. We propose a set of jet-energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-04 Sona Pochybova

We study the phenomenon of jet quenching utilizing quark and gluon jet substructures as independent probes of heavy ion collisions. We exploit jet and subjet features to highlight differences between quark and gluon jets in vacuum and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Yang-Ting Chien , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Modern machine learning techniques can be used to construct powerful models for difficult collider physics problems. In many applications, however, these models are trained on imperfect simulations due to a lack of truth-level information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 Eric M. Metodiev , Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

Currently, newly developed artificial intelligence techniques, in particular convolutional neural networks, are being investigated for use in data-processing and classification of particle physics collider data. One such challenging task is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-07 Jason Sang Hun Lee , Inkyu Park , Ian James Watson , Seungjin Yang

The separation of quark and gluon initiated jets can be an important way to improve the sensitivity in searches for new physics or in measurements of Higgs boson properties. We present a simplified version of the shower deconstruction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-28 Danilo Ferreira de Lima , Petar Petrov , Davison Soper , Michael Spannowsky

Quantum chromodynamics is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons; the coupling strength of the interaction, $\alpha_S$, is the least precisely-known of all interactions in nature. An extraction of the strong coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-09 Matt LeBlanc , Benjamin Nachman , Christof Sauer

Jet constituents provide a more detailed description of a jet's radiation pattern than global observables. In simulations for ATLAS Run-2 data (2015-2018), transformer-based taggers trained on low-level inputs outperformed traditional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-19 F. L. Castillo , J Levêque

We study the production of an electroweak boson in association with jets, in processes where the jet with the highest transverse momentum is identified as quark-initiated. The quark/gluon tagging procedure is realised by a cut on a jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-28 Simone Caletti , Oleh Fedkevych , Simone Marzani , Daniel Reichelt

Over the past decade, a large number of jet substructure observables have been proposed in the literature, and explored at the LHC experiments. Such observables attempt to utilize the internal structure of jets in order to distinguish those…

The semi-inclusive decay processes of a top quark into a charged pseudo-scalar meson and a jet are studied within the framework of QCD factorization. The leading power of the decay matrix elements can be factorized into heavy-to-light quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Long-Shun Lu , Lei-Yi Li , Cai-Dian Lü

Gluon jets are identified in hadronic Z0 decays as all the particles in a hemisphere opposite to a hemisphere containing two tagged quark jets. Gluon jets defined in this manner are equivalent to gluon jets produced from a color singlet…

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