Abstract

The distribution of particles inside hadronic jets produced in the decay of boosted W and Z bosons can be used to discriminate such jets from the continuum background. Given that a jet has been identified as likely resulting from the hadronic decay of a boosted W or Z boson, this paper presents a technique for further differentiating Z bosons from W bosons. The variables used are jet mass, jet charge, and a b-tagging discriminant. A likelihood tagger is constructed from these variables and tested in the simulation of W′→WZ for bosons in the transverse momentum range 200 GeV <pT< 400 GeV in sqrt(s)=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For Z-boson tagging efficiencies of ϵZ= 90%, 50%, and 10%, one can achieve W+-boson tagging rejection factors (1/ϵW+) of 1.7, 8.3 and 1000, respectively. It is not possible to measure these efficiencies in the data due to the lack of a pure sample of high pT, hadronically decaying Z bosons. However, the modelling of the tagger inputs for boosted W bosons is studied in data using a tt¯-enriched sample of events in 20.3 fb−1 of data at sqrt(s)=8 TeV. The inputs are well modelled within uncertainties, which builds confidence in the expected tagger performance.

Autore Pugliese

• Spagnolo Stefania Antonia , Ventura Andrea , Gorini Edoardo

Tutti gli autori

• Aad G. , Chiodini G. , Gorini E. , Primavera M. , Spagnolo S.A. , Ventura A.

Titolo volume/Rivista

THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Anno di pubblicazione

2016

ISSN

1434-6044

ISBN

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Numero di citazioni Wos

1

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27/04/2018

Numero di citazioni Scopus

1

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018

Settori ERC

Non Disponibile

Codici ASJC

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