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Exploiting jet binning to identify the initial state of high-mass resonances

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor Moult, Ian James
dc.contributor Stewart, Iain W
dc.creator Ebert, Markus A.
dc.creator Liebler, Stefan
dc.creator Tackmann, Frank J.
dc.creator Tackmann, Kerstin
dc.creator Zeune, Lisa
dc.creator Moult, Ian James
dc.creator Stewart, Iain W
dc.date 2016-12-27T16:17:58Z
dc.date 2016-12-27T16:17:58Z
dc.date 2016-09
dc.date 2016-06
dc.date 2016-09-28T22:00:10Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:11:25Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:11:25Z
dc.identifier 2470-0010
dc.identifier 2470-0029
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106143
dc.identifier Ebert, Markus A. et al. “Exploiting Jet Binning to Identify the Initial State of High-Mass Resonances.” Physical Review D 94.5 (2016): n. pag. © 2016 American Physical Society
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4819-4081
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0248-0979
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279090
dc.description If a new high-mass resonance is discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, model-independent techniques to identify the production mechanism will be crucial to understand its nature and effective couplings to Standard Model particles. We present a powerful and model-independent method to infer the initial state in the production of any high-mass color-singlet system by using a tight veto on accompanying hadronic jets to divide the data into two mutually exclusive event samples (jet bins). For a resonance of several hundred GeV, the jet binning cut needed to discriminate quark and gluon initial states is in the experimentally accessible range of several tens of GeV. It also yields comparable cross sections for both bins, making this method viable already with the small event samples available shortly after a discovery. Theoretically, the method is made feasible by utilizing an effective field theory setup to compute the jet cut dependence precisely and model independently and to systematically control all sources of theoretical uncertainties in the jet binning, as well as their correlations. We use a 750 GeV scalar resonance as an example to demonstrate the viability of our method.
dc.description United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Nuclear Physics (Grant DE-SC0011090)
dc.description Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 676 Particles, Strings and the Early Universe)
dc.description Simons Foundation (Investigator Grant 327942)
dc.description Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VEN)I Grant)
dc.description MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (Collaboration Grant)
dc.description Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VENI Grant)
dc.description Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Emmy-Noether Grant TA 867/1-1)
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dc.language en
dc.publisher American Physical Society
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.051901
dc.relation Physical Review D
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dc.rights American Physical Society
dc.source American Physical Society
dc.title Exploiting jet binning to identify the initial state of high-mass resonances
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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