364 research outputs found
On the breaking of collinear factorization in QCD
We investigate the breakdown of collinear factorization for non-inclusive
observables in hadron-hadron collisions. For pure QCD processes, factorization
is violated at the three-loop level and it has a structure identical to that
encountered previously in the case of super-leading logarithms. In particular,
it is driven by the non-commutation of Coulomb/Glauber gluon exchanges with
other soft exchanges. Beyond QCD, factorization may be violated at the two-loop
level provided that the hard subprocess contains matrix element contributions
with phase differences between different colour topologies.Comment: Version 2: minor improvements for journal publicatio
Herwig++1.0: an event generator for e(+)e(-) annihilation
Results from the new Monte Carlo event generator Herwig++ are presented. This
first version simulates Hadron Emission Reactions With Interfering Gluons in
electron-positron annihilation. The parton shower evolution is carried out
using new evolution variables suited to describing radiation from heavy quarks
as well as light partons. The partonic final state is fragmented into hadrons
by means of an improved cluster hadronization model. The results are compared
with a wide variety of data from LEP and SLC
HERWIG 6.5 Release Note
A new release of the Monte Carlo program HERWIG (version 6.5) is now
available. The main new features are: support for the Les Houches interface to
matrix element generators; additional SM and MSSM Higgs processes in lepton
collisions; additional matrix elements for the spin correlation algorithm; a
new version of the ISAWIG interface; interface to the MC@NLO program for heavy
quark, Higgs and vector boson production in hadron collisions. boson pair
production in hadron collisions. This is planned to be the last major release
of Fortran HERWIG. Future developments will be implemented in a new C++ event
generator, HERWIG++
Improving NLO-parton shower matched simulations with higher order matrix elements
In recent times the algorithms for the simulation of hadronic collisions have
been subject to two substantial improvements: the inclusion, within parton
showering, of exact higher order tree level matrix elements (MEPS) and,
separately, next-to-leading order corrections (NLOPS). In this work we examine
the key criteria to be met in merging the two approaches in such a way that the
accuracy of both is preserved, in the framework of the POWHEG approach to
NLOPS. We then ask to what extent these requirements may be fulfilled using
existing simulations, without modifications. The result of this study is a
pragmatic proposal for merging MEPS and NLOPS events to yield much improved
MENLOPS event samples. We apply this method to W boson and top quark pair
production. In both cases results for distributions within the remit of the NLO
calculations exhibit no discernible changes with respect to the pure NLOPS
prediction; conversely, those sensitive to the distribution of multiple hard
jets assume, exactly, the form of the corresponding MEPS results.Comment: 38 pages, 17 figures. v2: added citations and brief discussion of
related works, MENLOPS prescription localized in a subsection. v3: cited 4
more MEPS works in introduction
Jet vetoing and Herwig++
We investigate the simulation of events with gaps between jets with a veto on
additional radiation in the gap in Herwig++. We discover that the
currently-used random treatment of radiation in the parton shower is generating
some unphysical behaviour for wide-angle gluon emission in QCD 2 to 2
scatterings. We explore this behaviour quantitatively by making the same
assumptions as the parton shower in the analytical calculation. We then modify
the parton shower algorithm in order to correct the simulation of QCD
radiation.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figure
Jet Trimming
Initial state radiation, multiple interactions, and event pileup can
contaminate jets and degrade event reconstruction. Here we introduce a
procedure, jet trimming, designed to mitigate these sources of contamination in
jets initiated by light partons. This procedure is complimentary to existing
methods developed for boosted heavy particles. We find that jet trimming can
achieve significant improvements in event reconstruction, especially at high
energy/luminosity hadron colliders like the LHC.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables - Minor changes to text/figure
HERWIG 6.4 Release Note
A new release of the Monte Carlo program HERWIG (version 6.4) is now
available. The main new features are: spin correlations between the production
and decay of heavy fermions, i.e. top quarks, tau leptons and SUSY particles;
polarization effects in SUSY production processes in lepton-lepton collisions;
an interface to TAUOLA for tau decays; MSSM Higgs processes in lepton-lepton
collisions
Search for the Elusive Higgs Boson Using Jet Structure at LHC
We consider the production of a light non-standard model Higgs boson of order
100~\GEV with an associated boson at CERN Large Hadron Collider. We focus
on an interesting scenario that, the Higgs boson decays predominately into two
light scalars with mass of few GeV which sequently decay into four
gluons, i.e. . Since is much lighter than the Higgs
boson, it will be highly boosted and its decay products, the two gluons, will
move close to each other, resulting in a single jet for decay in the
detector. By using electromagnetic calorimeter-based and jet substructure
analyses, we show in two cases of different masses that it is quite
promising to extract the signal of Higgs boson out of large QCD background.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Jet Substructure Without Trees
We present an alternative approach to identifying and characterizing jet
substructure. An angular correlation function is introduced that can be used to
extract angular and mass scales within a jet without reference to a clustering
algorithm. This procedure gives rise to a number of useful jet observables. As
an application, we construct a top quark tagging algorithm that is competitive
with existing methods.Comment: 22 pages, 16 figures, version accepted by JHE
Identifying Boosted Objects with N-subjettiness
We introduce a new jet shape -- N-subjettiness -- designed to identify
boosted hadronically-decaying objects like electroweak bosons and top quarks.
Combined with a jet invariant mass cut, N-subjettiness is an effective
discriminating variable for tagging boosted objects and rejecting the
background of QCD jets with large invariant mass. In efficiency studies of
boosted W bosons and top quarks, we find tagging efficiencies of 30% are
achievable with fake rates of 1%. We also consider the discovery potential for
new heavy resonances that decay to pairs of boosted objects, and find
significant improvements are possible using N-subjettiness. In this way,
N-subjettiness combines the advantages of jet shapes with the discriminating
power seen in previous jet substructure algorithms.Comment: 26 pages, 26 figures, 2 tables; v2: references added; v3: discussion
of results extende
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