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Tesi etd-07192011-020840


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
MARINI, ANDREA CARLO
URN
etd-07192011-020840
Titolo
Quark and Gluon Jet Separation and QCD Studies at CMS
Dipartimento
SCIENZE MATEMATICHE, FISICHE E NATURALI
Corso di studi
FISICA
Relatori
relatore Prof. Rolandi, Luigi
Parole chiave
  • quark
  • CMS
  • gluon separation
Data inizio appello
20/09/2011
Consultabilità
Non consultabile
Data di rilascio
20/09/2051
Riassunto
Jets are among the most studied structures at hadron colliders.
Their importance is due to the fact that they are involved in a large
number of processes, and that they retain some memory of the properties of the parton they originate from.
The ability to separate quark jets from gluon jets is an important
tool for signal discrimination in analyses containing jets in their final
state, like some typical decays of the Higgs boson. This separation,
however, is not completely achievable due to the statistical nature of
hadronization. Using variables obtained from the CMS Particle Flow
algorithm, which allow an accurate reconstruction of jets with a high
granularity, we can exploit the structural differences between quark
and gluon hadronization to derive a likelihood-based discriminant
which statistically separates quark from gluon jets.
The performance of the discriminator is tested both on real and
simulated data; some typical problems arising from high luminosity
of the LHC (pileup) are also taken into account and corrected for.
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