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| Description | Speaker: Jesse Thaler (MIT) Title: N-subjettiness Host: Chang Room: 432 Many beyond the standard model scenarios predict that the LHC will produce new heavy particles with decay channels involving top quarks, W/Z bosons, and Higgs bosons. If these top quarks and electroweak bosons are sufficiently boosted, then their decays can be misreconstructed as a single fat jet. In this talk, I describe a new jet shape, N-subjettiness, designed to tag boosted hadronically-decaying objects and reject the background of QCD jets with large invariant mass. I will argue that N-subjettiness combines the advantages of jet shapes with the discriminating power seen in previous jet substructure algorithms. I will also suggest that techniques learned from N-subjettiness may be applicable to entire events, pointing toward new algorithms for jet reconstruction. |
| Date | Wed, March 23, 2011 |
| Time | 6:30am-7:30am PDT |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Access | Public |
| Created by | High-Energy Seminars |
| Updated | Wed, March 23, 2011 5:34am PDT |
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