7–9 May 2018
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Jet SIFT-ing

8 May 2018, 18:15
15m
G-27 (Benedum Hall)

G-27

Benedum Hall

Speaker

Joel Wesley Walker (Texas A & M University (US))

Description

We introduce a new jet clustering algorithm (SIFT: Scale-Invariant Filter Tree), which does not impose a fixed cone size or associated scale on the event. The proposed construction maintains excellent object discrimination for very collimated partonic systems, while asymptotically recovering favorable behaviors of the standard anti-KT algorithm. It is intrinsically suitable (without secondary declustering) for the tagging of highly boosted objects, and applicable to the study of jet substructure. Additionally, it is resilient to pileup, via a concurrent filter on soft wide-angle radiation applied within the primary clustering phase.

Author

Joel Wesley Walker (Texas A & M University (US))

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