In:
The European Physical Journal C, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 82, No. 5 ( 2022-05)
Kurzfassung:
We study the problem of distinguishing b -jets stemming from the decay of a colour singlet, such as the Higgs boson, from those originating from the abundant QCD background. In particular, as a case study, we focus on associate production of a vector boson and a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of b -jets, which has been recently observed at the LHC. We consider the combination of several theory-driven observables proposed in the literature, together with Lund jet plane images, in order to design an original Hbb tagger. The observables are combined by means of standard machine learning algorithms, which are trained on events obtained with fast detector simulation techniques. We find that the combination of high-level single-variable observables with the Lund jet plane provides an excellent discrimination performance. We also study the dependence of the tagger on the invariant mass of the decaying particles, in order to assess the extension to a generic Xbb tagger.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1434-6052
DOI:
10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10447-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publikationsdatum:
2022
ZDB Id:
1397769-6
ZDB Id:
1459069-4
