13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

QCD Reference Frames and False Jet Individualism

15 May 2024, 14:45
15m
Barco Law Building 107 (University of Pittsburgh)

Barco Law Building 107

University of Pittsburgh

QCD & Heavy Ion Physics QCD & Heavy Ion Physics

Speakers

John Lawless (University of Tennessee (US)) Lawrence Lee Jr (University of Tennessee (US))

Description

In collider physics, the properties of hadronic jets are often measured as a function of their lab-frame momenta. However, jet fragmentation must occur in the particular rest frame of all color-connected particles. Since this frame need not be the lab frame, the fragmentation of a jet depends on the properties of its sibling objects. This non-factorizability of jets has consequences for jet techniques such as jet tagging, boosted boson measurements, and searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model. In this talk, we will describe the effect and show its impact as predicted by simulation.

Based largely on https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10951

Authors

John Lawless (University of Tennessee (US)) Lawrence Lee Jr (University of Tennessee (US))

Co-authors

Charles Alan Bell (University of Tennessee (US)) Cordney Nash (University of Tennessee (US)) Emery Nibigira (University of Tennessee (US))

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