Overview
- Serves as self-contained primer on the subject matter
- Conceived both as textbook and reference manual for newcomers and specialists alike
- Combines theoretical, experimental and numerical aspects
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 958)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (11 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This concise primer reviews the latest developments in the field of jets. Jets are collinear sprays of hadrons produced in very high-energy collisions, e.g. at the LHC or at a future hadron collider. They are essential to and ubiquitous in experimental analyses, making their study crucial.
At present LHC energies and beyond, massive particles around the electroweak scale are frequently produced with transverse momenta that are much larger than their mass, i.e., boosted. The decay products of such boosted massive objects tend to occupy only a relatively small and confined area of the detector and are observed as a single jet. Jets hence arise from many different sources and it is important to be able to distinguish the rare events with boosted resonances from the large backgrounds originating from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This requires familiarity with the internal properties of jets, such as their different radiation patterns, a field broadly known as jet substructure.
This set of notes begins by providing a phenomenological motivation, explaining why the study of jets and their substructure is of particular importance for the current and future program of the LHC, followed by a brief but insightful introduction to QCD and to hadron-collider phenomenology. The next section introduces jets as complex objects constructed from a sequential recombination algorithm. In this context some experimental aspects are also reviewed. Since jet substructure calculations are multi-scale problems that call for all-order treatments (resummations), the bases of such calculations are discussed for simple jet quantities.
With these QCD and jet physics ingredients in hand, readers can then dig into jet substructure itself. Accordingly, these notes first highlight the main concepts behind substructure techniques and introduce a list of the main jet substructure tools that have been used over the past decade. Analytic calculations are then provided for several families of tools, the goal being to identify their key characteristics. In closing, the book provides an overview of LHC searches and measurements where jet substructure techniques are used, reviews the main take-home messages, and outlines future perspectives.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Looking Inside Jets
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Jet Substructure and Boosted-object Phenomenology
Authors: Simone Marzani, Gregory Soyez, Michael Spannowsky
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15709-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15708-1Published: 12 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15709-8Published: 11 May 2019
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics