8–10 May 2017
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

A new scale-invariant jet clustering algorithm for the substructure era

9 May 2017, 17:45
15m
G-26 (Benedum Hall)

G-26

Benedum Hall

parallel talk Novel Techniques & Tools

Speaker

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

Description

We introduce a new scale-invariant jet clustering algorithm which does not impose a fixed cone size on the event. The proposed construction maintains excellent object discrimination for very collimated partonic systems. Nevertheless, it is able to asymptotically recover favorable behaviors of the standard anti-KT algorithm. Additionally, it is intrinsically suitable for the tagging of highly boosted objects. Because of these properties, this algorithm may prove to be useful for the continuing study of jet substructure.

Summary

The talk may be suitable for the QCD session as an applied topic (jet physics). It may also be suitable for tools. My suggestion is the former (QCD), as it does not constitute a general-purpose tool, or a distributable (at this time) piece of production code.

Author

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

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