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Type: Journal article
Title: A new method to distinguish hadronically decaying boosted Z bosons from W bosons using the ATLAS detector
Author: Atlas, C.
Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdallah, J.
Abdinov, O.
Aben, R.
Abolins, M.
AbouZeid, O.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abreu, R.
Abulaiti, Y.
Acharya, B.
Adamczyk, L.
Adams, D.
Adelman, J.
Adomeit, S.
Adye, T.
Affolder, A.
Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
et al.
Citation: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2016; 76(5):238-1-238-33
Publisher: Springer
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1434-6044
1434-6052
Statement of
Responsibility: 
G. Aad ... Paul D. Jackson … Lawrence Lee-Jr … Andreas Petridis … Nitesh Soni … Martin White … et al (Atlas Collaboration).
Abstract: The distribution of particles inside hadronic jets produced in the decay of boosted W and Z bosons can be used to discriminate such jets from the continuum background. Given that a jet has been identified as likely resulting from the hadronic decay of a boosted W or Z boson, this paper presents a technique for further differentiating Z bosons from W bosons. The variables used are jet mass, jet charge, and a b-tagging discriminant. A likelihood tagger is constructed from these variables and tested in the simulation of W′→WZ for bosons in the transverse momentum range 200 GeV <pT< 400 GeV in s√=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For Z-boson tagging efficiencies of ϵZ=90, 50, and 10%, one can achieve W+-boson tagging rejection factors (1/ϵW+) of 1.7, 8.3 and 1000, respectively. It is not possible to measure these efficiencies in the data due to the lack of a pure sample of high pT, hadronically decaying Z bosons. However, the modelling of the tagger inputs for boosted W bosons is studied in data using a tt¯-enriched sample of events in 20.3 fb−1 of data at s√=8 TeV. The inputs are well modelled within uncertainties, which builds confidence in the expected tagger performance.
Keywords: Atlas Collaboration
Rights: © CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4065-1
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4065-1
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