Safe use of jet pull

Andrew Larkoski (Physics Department, Reed College, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR, 97202, USA) ; Simone Marzani (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova and INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Genoa, 16146, Italy) ; Chang Wu (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova and INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Genoa, 16146, Italy)

Jet pull is an observable designed to probe colour flow between jets. Thus far, a particular projection of the pull vector, the pull angle, has been employed to distinguish colour flow between jets produced by a colour singlet or an octet decay. This is of particular importance in order to separate the decay of a Higgs boson to a pair of bottom quarks from the QCD background. However, the pull angle is not infra-red and collinear (IRC) safe. In this paper we introduce IRC safe projections of the pull vector that exhibit good sensitivity to colour flow, while maintaining calculability. We calculate these distributions to next-to- leading logarithmic accuracy, in the context of the hadronic decay of a Higgs boson, and compare these results to Monte Carlo simulations. This study allows us to define an IRC safe version of the pull angle in terms of asymmetry distributions. Furthermore, because of their sensitivity to wide-angle soft radiation, we anticipate that these asymmetries can play an important role in assessing subleading colour correlations and their modelling in general-purpose Monte Carlo parton showers.

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Published on:
17 January 2020
Publisher:
Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2020 (2020)
Issue 1
Pages 1-23
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)104
arXiv:
1911.05090
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CC-BY-3.0

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