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Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 284
Roman Kogler
Advances
in Jet
Substructure
at the LHC
Algorithms, Measurements and
Searches for New Physical Phenomena
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
Volume 284
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Preface
This book has been written as part of my habilitation at the University of Hamburg.
It is intended to serve graduate students and researchers to get familiar with the state-
of-the-art of jet substructure at the LHC. I have attempted to provide enough details
such that this book can serve as a work of reference for experienced researchers as
well.
The versatility of this branch of particle physics is reflected in multi-faceted
developments of algorithms and their numerous applications in measurements and
searches for new phenomena. While this versatility is the reason for the success
of this field, the inexperienced researcher may feel lost when first exposed to this
wealth of information. I advise researchers starting in this area to read the whole
book without stopping at passages which may not be immediately clear at first. After
having obtained a good overview of the possibilities jet substructure methods offer,
re-reading the book will help to deepen the knowledge and reinforce connections.
I hope that the level of detail given will help more experienced researchers to find
solutions to their problems or connections to other areas. I have tried to provide
as many relevant references as possible, to aid the interested reader in finding all
information needed to delve deeply into every topic discussed in this book.
My scientific work, leading to this book, would not have been possible without the
support of Prof. Johannes Haller (University of Hamburg), who has encouraged me to
proceed with my habilitation at the Institute for Experimental Physics. I am grateful
to Dr. Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (INFN Napoli), who has led the physics analysis
group “Beyond Two Generations” within the CMS Collaboration together with me
from 2017 to 2019. The work with this group has inspired me and led to exciting
new developments. I would also like to thank my CMS collaborators for the excellent
working atmosphere and stimulating environment. I have profited from the scien-
tific exchange at numerous conferences and workshops, most notably at the annual
BOOST conference (International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology,
Reconstruction and Searches in HEP).
I am thankful for financial support by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung
und Forschung (BMBF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German
Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2121 “Quantum
Universe”. I am grateful to Prof. Thomas Müller (KIT Karlsruhe) for making the
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contact with Springer, initiating that this document could be published as part of the
“Springer Tracts in Modern Physics” and to the publisher for the professional partner-
ship when creating this book. I am indebted to Prof. Johannes Haller, Prof. Michael
Spannowsky (IPPP and the University of Durham), Dr. Arne Reimers (University of
Zürich), Dr. Dennis Schwarz (HEPHY Vienna), Dr. Anna Benecke (UC Louvain)
and Andrea Malara (University of Hamburg) for proof-reading the book.
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Phenomenology of Jet Substructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Introduction to Jet Substructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2.1 Heavy Particle Decays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2.2 W Boson Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2.3 Z Boson Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.4 Higgs Boson Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2.5 Top Quark Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.2.6 Kinematic Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.2.7 Kinematics of Vector and Higgs Boson Decays . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2.8 Kinematics of Top Quark Decays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.3 Jet Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.3.1 Sequential Clustering Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.3.2 Variable R Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.3.3 XCone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.3.4 The Georgi Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.4 Identifying Particle Decays with Jet Substructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.4.1 Jet Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.4.2 Angularities and Energy Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.4.3 Jet Grooming and N-Prong Taggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.4.4 Other Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.4.5 Pileup Mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.5 (Semi-)Analytical Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.5.1 Perturbative Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.5.2 Non-perturbative Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.6 Event Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.6.1 Parton Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2.6.2 Matrix Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
2.6.3 Parton Showers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.6.4 Matching Matrix Elements to Parton Showers . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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x Contents
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Acronyms
The standard model (SM) of particle physics is one of the most successful theories
humankind has developed. Its core elements have been formulated in the 1960–70s
to explain phenomena at energy scales of a few GeV. Nowadays, more than 50 years
later, the SM has been probed by many experiments and numerous measurements
spanning energy ranges from GeV to multiple TeV. Its validity has been confirmed in
each of these measurements, with cross sections spanning many orders of magnitude.
The SM has also proven to be extremely successful in predicting new particles and
processes, spectacular discoveries accompany its development.
In our modern picture, the SM of particle physics is governed by the Lagrange
density LSM with left-handed doublets ψ L and right-handed singlets ψ R of the quark
and lepton fields. It is one of the largest successes in science that this theory could be
devised by following symmetry considerations only. This leads to a structure of LSM
which is remarkably plain, but leads to a vast phenomenology. Since any description
of nature is only a valid physical theory if it can be falsified, the success of the SM
is founded on its predictions of observable processes.
With the start of data acquisition at the CERN LHC in 2010, a new era of particle
physics has begun. The energy range of particle collisions has been extended by
about an order of magnitude relative to earlier experiments. In conjunction with a
dataset of unprecedented size, this has led to a wealth of measurements and searches
exploring regions not accessible before. A tremendous experimental effort by the
ATLAS and CMS Collaborations has climaxed in the last addition to the SM. The
Higgs boson H has been discovered in 2012 [1, 2], about 50 years after the pre-
diction of its existence. So far, all studies of this new particle suggest that it has
the properties predicted by the minimal version of the Brout-Englert-Higgs (BEH)
[3–5] mechanism incorporated in the SM [6–10]. The experimental programme
at the LHC has also brought forth numerous measurements of SM processes and
1 Jet substructure has also become a field of study in heavy ion collisions, which are not discussed
in this book.
2 While some aspects of LHC physics may not have direct connections to jet substructure techniques,
the advancements in this field result in new developments of reconstruction algorithms, influencing
all stages of data analyses.
4 1 Introduction
This book summarises the status of this field until about the end of 2020. Regular
meetings of theorists and experimentalists in the context of the BOOST conference
series,3 have led to a fruitful exchange, triggering developments that shaped the field.
While several publications and studies on jet substructure existed already prior to the
first BOOST conference, it marks the beginning of an exciting scientific undertaking.
The three reports from this conference series provide valuable material [21–23]. The
interested reader is also referred to recent comprehensive reviews on theoretical
[24, 25] and experimental [26] aspects of jet substructure.
3 Conferences in this series are dedicated to the physics of jet substructure, and are called Interna-
tional Workshops on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction and Searches in HEP. They
are organised annually, where the first one was held in 2009 at the SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory at Menlo Park (USA).
Chapter 2
Phenomenology of Jet Substructure
Abstract Jet substructure techniques are devised to analyse the internal radiation
pattern of jets, thereby identifying their origin or revealing the dynamics of the strong
force. These techniques are intricately connected with jet finding algorithms, either
by modifying the clustering process, reversing it, or by storing information during
the clustering. In this chapter, an overview is given of the currently known methods,
algorithms and observables. The kinematics of heavy particle decays is discussed in
detail to gain an understanding how individual jets can capture the full information
from these decays. Theoretical methods used to calculate jet substructure observables
are introduced, as well as models to simulate the rich substructure of jets.
Jets are collimated sprays of particles, produced in abundance in high energy particle
collisions.1 They are ubiquitous in particle collider experiments and indispensable
in studies of the underlying dynamics and interactions. Jets have played a central
role in the discovery and property measurements of many fundamental particles
like the gluon (g) [27–30] and the top quark (t) [31, 32]. They have provided key
insights into the structure of the strong force and were indispensable in the study
of H boson couplings to third-generation quarks [33–36]. Because of their large
production rate at the LHC, jets feature prominently in searches for new particles
and precision measurements of SM properties. However, important information on
the underlying particle dynamics is not only carried by the four-momenta of jets, but
also by their internal structure. Investigations of this jet substructure reveal a wealth
of physical processes and pose interesting theoretical and experimental challenges.
While relatively young, the field of jet substructure has become an important field
of research over the last decade and will gain further importance with the future data
taking periods at the LHC.
1 The text in this subsection has been taken from [26] and has been written by the author. It has been
With the advent of the LHC it was realised that decays of hypothetical, very heavy
resonances can lead to highly Lorentz-boosted heavy SM particles, W , Z , H bosons
and top quarks [37–41]. Since these particles feature the largest branching fractions
into hadrons, final states with fully-hadronic decays have high sensitivity in LHC
analyses. The large boost leads to very collimated decays, where particle masses of
O(100) GeV are not large enough for the outgoing quarks to be sufficiently separated
relative to each other to be resolved into individual jets. It is the small opening angle
between the decay products that leads to fully-merged particle decays. This chapter
describes techniques for measuring jets as proxies for hadronic decays of W , Z , H
bosons and top quarks, as well as the discrimination of quark and gluon jets.
Since the first evidence for jets in e+ e− collisions at SPEAR [42], jets have had a
significant impact on the research programme of every particle collider since DORIS
through the LHC, and beyond to the design of future colliders. There is no single,
universal definition of a jet—which particles belong to a jet depend on the algorithm
used to combine particles into jets. In the beginning of jets from the mid 1970’s,
there were no jet clustering algorithms; information from the whole event was used
instead of localised energy flows. The sphericity tensor [43] was typically used to
obtain a jet axis for events with a back-to-back dijet topology. Quantitative statements
about data were obtained from event shapes, like the sphericity or thrust [44–46].
Sphericity is a measure for the isotropy of the particles produced and thrust is a
measure of the directed energy flow along an axis that maximises this flow in an
event. These event shapes can be used to characterise how compatible events are
with the assumption of two oppositely directed, collimated jets. A clear theoretical
advantage of these event shapes is that they are calculable in perturbative Quantum
Chromodynamics (pQCD). This was realised early on and the calculability, together
with experimental data, ultimately resulted√in the confirmation of the parton model
and, with data from experiments at higher s, the discovery of the gluon in three jet
events at PETRA [27–30].
When studying the dynamics of quark and gluon scattering, it became necessary
to perform quantitative analyses and calculations that go beyond event shapes. For
these to be possible, it was realised that it is mandatory to define a deterministic
set of rules on how particles are combined into jets. A schematic drawing depicting
this problem is shown in Fig. 2.1. While the sphericity axis is uniquely defined and
easily calculable, the direction and magnitude of the jet axes depend on which par-
ticles should be combined into a given jet, and how the particles are combined to
obtain the axes. An intuitive definition for a jet algorithm consists of summing the
momenta of all particles within a cone with fixed size [47]. Naive cone algorithms
are not infrared and collinear (IRC) safe—the requirement that the resulting jets be
insensitive to arbitrarily low energy particles and collinear splittings. IRC safety is a
useful theoretical requirement for making calculations in pQCD and is also a con-
venient language for describing the experimental robustness to noise and detector
granularity.
There exist many variants of cone-type algorithms, developed in the attempt to
solve the IRC unsafety of naive cone jet algorithms. This stems from the necessity of
an initial axis, which was eventually solved with the formulation of the SISCone algo-
2.1 Introduction to Jet Substructure 7
rithm [48]. Although this algorithm is IRC safe, it is not widely used today because
it was found that sequential recombination algorithms have several advantages over
cone-type algorithms. First used by the JADE Collaboration [49, 50], the initial
version of a recombination algorithm defined for e+ e− collisions was improved in
several steps [51, 52], to finally arrive at the longitudinally-invariant kT -clustering
algorithm for hadron-hadron collisions [53, 54]. A generalisation of this algorithm
leads to three classes, distinct only by the sign of the exponent k of the transverse
momentum pT,i in the inter-particle distance measure di j . The original kT algorithm,
with k = 1, clusters soft and collinear particles first, the Cambridge/Aachen algo-
rithm (CA) [55, 56], with k = 0, prioritises particles in the clustering solely by their
angular proximity, and the anti-kT algorithm [57], with k = −1, combines the hardest
particles first. The size of the catchment area of a jet is regulated by the jet distance
parameter R, often referred to as jet radius. The proposal of the latter algorithm is
also responsible for the disappearance of cone-type algorithms in experimental stud-
ies. When it was realised that the anti-kT algorithm results in nearly perfect conical
jets the LHC collaborations made a transition to this algorithm. Today, almost all
studies involving jets performed at the LHC use this algorithm. Even when analysing
the substructure of jets with advanced grooming or tagging techniques, the initial
step often consists of building an ensemble of particles, clustered with the anti-kT
algorithm.
So far, it has not been specified what the term particle refers to when using
particles as input to jet clustering. In fact, in jet physics, the term particle is often used
generically for different sorts of objects, whose ensemble comprises the input to a
given jet algorithm. Three different ensembles are commonly used. The partonic final
state includes all particles resulting from the parton shower before the hadronisation
starts (which is unphysical). This also include photons when these were created in
the hard interaction or emitted from charged particles during the parton shower.
The ensemble on the particle level, also called hadron level, consists of hadrons
and their decay products, including photons and leptons. The detector level input
8 2 Phenomenology of Jet Substructure
exclusive jet clustering using the particles inside a jet as input, or the maximisation
of the projection of the jet constituents’ momenta onto the desired number of axes,
as illustrated in Fig. 2.2.
Since the opening angle between the quarks depends on the momentum of the
parent particle and its mass, larger jets (R ∼ 1) than normally employed in LHC
analyses (R ∼ 0.4) are used to reconstruct boosted heavy particle decays. A larger
distance parameter is chosen to capture the full kinematics of the decay already
at moderate momenta of 200–400 GeV. The drawback of jets with large areas is
unwanted contributions from the underlying event and from multiple proton-proton
collisions in the same or adjacent bunch crossings (pileup). These lead to a worsening
of the resolution in quantities used to identify the substructure of jets, like the jet
mass. Jet grooming and pileup removal algorithms have been developed to mitigate
these effects. Grooming algorithms aim at removing soft and wide-angle radiation,
therefore not only reducing the effects from the underlying event but also reducing the
sensitivity to the details of fragmentation. Pileup removal algorithms are designed to
identify and subtract contributions from a different interaction vertex, by eliminating
uncorrelated radiation from jets. A combination of these techniques often leads to
the best overall performance and it is an ongoing effort to understand the interplay
of pileup removal, grooming and tagging algorithms.
The theoretical and algorithmic developments have been made possible thanks to
advances in experimental methods. New technologies, like silicon pixel detectors,
high-resolution tracking detectors in conjunction with strong magnetic fields, highly
granular calorimeters with low electronic noise and lightweight materials for detec-
tor structures with little dead material inside the active detector volume have enabled
increasingly precise jet measurements and studies of internal jet structure. Modern
particle detectors at the LHC are equipped with many layers of high-resolution track-
ing detectors, strong and very homogeneous magnetic fields and finely segmented
calorimeters with an excellent energy resolution. With these technologies, the ATLAS
and CMS detectors2 are equipped to track and reconstruct individual particles pro-
duced in high energy collisions. On average about 60% of a jet’s momentum is
carried by charged hadrons, photons account for about 25% of the total jet momen-
tum and the remaining 15% can be attributed to long-lived neutral hadrons [70].
With increasing jet energy, the particle multiplicity increases, and also the fraction
of the jet’s momentum carried by soft particles. For example, on average 50% of the
momentum of a 50 GeV jet is carried by particles with a momentum less than 5%
of the jet’s momentum. It is therefore crucial to ensure that particles with energies
down to O(100 MeV) can be reconstructed in order to retain the full information on
a jet’s kinematics and internal structure.
As important as the reconstruction of the total jet energy is the measurement of the
jet constituent multiplicity and their angular distributions. While charged particles
2 The ALICE and LHCb detectors are also well-equipped to perform jet substructure studies. While
these experiments do not have access to boosted massive particles due to their data rate (ALICE)
or acceptance (LHCb), they are performing many interesting QCD studies with jet substructure.
This review will be focused on ATLAS and CMS, but the future of jet substructure will involve key
contributions from all four LHC experiments.
10 2 Phenomenology of Jet Substructure
The W boson has been discovered in 1983 by the UA1 and UA2 experiments at
CERN [76, 77]. Its mass has been measured at LEP and the Tevatron with a value
of m W = 80.385 ± 0.015 GeV [78–80]. When neglecting fermion mass effects, the
partial widths of the W + boson can be obtained by counting arguments. The partial
width at leading order (LO) for the decay into a pair of fermions W → f f¯ can be
readily calculated when neglecting fermion mass effects,
EW gauge bosons, which are four body decays. These decays are not discussed in detail here.
12 2 Phenomenology of Jet Substructure
G F M3
W → f f¯ = C √ W , (2.2)
6 2π
where G F is the Fermi constant and MW is the mass of the W boson. The colour
factor C is 1 for decays into leptons and 3 for decays into quarks, thus one obtains
at tree level
W →hadrons BW →had 6
= = . (2.3)
W →leptons BW →lep 3
The W boson decays twice as often to hadrons as to leptons. Higher order correc-
tions and fermion masses can affect the numerator and denominator in (2.3) differ-
ently, leading to small deviations from this result. Known corrections include one-
loop quantum electrodynamic (QED) and EW corrections for massless and massive
fermions [81–88], one-loop QCD corrections for massive quarks [89, 90], QCD cor-
rections up to four loops for massless [91–93] quarks, where the two- and three-loop
corrections include quadratic quark mass effects [94], and mixed EW/QCD correc-
tions [95]. Numerical results for the calculated partial widths including all known cor-
rections are W →leptons = 680.34 ± 0.05 MeV and W →hadrons = 1409.4 ± 0.8 MeV,
resulting in a total width of W = 2089.7 ± 0.8 MeV [78]. The predicted branching
fraction of BW →had = 67.45 ± 0.04% is about one percent larger than the LO result.
These predictions agree very well with the combination of the LEP and the Tevatron
measurements, W = 2085 ± 42 MeV and BW →had = 67.60 ± 0.27% [78–80]. It is
noteworthy that the decay W + → cb is Cabibbo-suppressed with a factor of |Vcb |2 ,
which is about 1.7 · 10−3 [78]. This results in BW →cb ≈ 5 · 10−4 , and thus the con-
tribution from b quarks to the decay of the W boson is small enough to be neglected
in all practical uses of jet substructure.
The angular distribution of the fermions from the W boson decay depends on the
W boson polarisation. For W + decays, the angular distribution is at Born level [96]
1 dσ 3 2 3 2 3
∗
= f + 1 + cos θ ∗ + f − 1 − cos θ ∗ + f 0 sin2 θ ∗ . (2.4)
σ d cos θ 8 8 4
The decay angle θ ∗ is defined in the W rest frame and is the angle between the
charged lepton (or the quark) and the W flight direction in the laboratory rest frame.
The fractions f + and f − refer to transversely polarised W + bosons with helicities +1
and −1, respectively. The fraction of longitudinally polarised W + bosons is given
by f 0 . For W − bosons the fractions f − and f + are interchanged in (2.4). Since the
quark charge is impossible to reconstruct experimentally, only the absolute values are
accessible for hadronic decays. The angular distribution can then be written as [97]
1 dσ 3 3
∗
= f ± 1 + | cos θ ∗ |2 + f 0 | sin θ ∗ |2 , (2.5)
σ d|cos θ | 4 2
1/ σ dσ/dα
opening angle α between the
W → qq' p W = 200 GeV p W = 400 GeV
two quarks from W decays,
calculated in the laboratory f0 = 1 f0 = 1
rest frame. Distributions are f± = 1 f± = 1
shown for longitudinal (solid 10
p W = 800 GeV
lines) and transversal
f0 = 1
(dashed lines) W boson
f± = 1
polarisations, for different
momenta p W 1
10− 1
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
α
longitudinally polarised W bosons are produced via the decay of a heavy resonance.
The helicity fractions for W bosons produced via SM processes at the LHC depends
on the transverse momentum of the W boson and receives non-negligible QCD
corrections [98–101]. At high transverse momenta, the W − bosons are predominantly
left-handed and W + bosons are mostly right-handed [102–104].
The opening angle α between two quarks from the W boson decay obtained in
the laboratory rest frame is the figure of merit for jet substructure applications, as
it controls the degree of collimation. The distribution of α is shown in Fig. 2.3 for
longitudinally and transversely polarised W bosons with three different simulated
values of the momentum. For transverse polarisations, the distributions have more
pronounced tails due to decays collinear to the W boson flight direction. This can
lead to differences in identification efficiencies in jet substructure analyses, due to
lost decay products. Additionally, the shapes of jet substructure observables which
take angular correlations into account can be different for different polarisation states.
The Z boson was discovered in 1983 by the UA1 and UA2 collaborations [105, 106].
With a mass of m Z = 91.1875 ± 0.0021 GeV [107], it is about 10 GeV heavier than
the W boson. At LO in EW perturbation theory, the decay width of the Z boson into
a fermion-antifermion pair is
G F M3
Z → f f¯ = C √ Z (|gV, f |2 + |g A, f |2 ) , (2.6)
6 2π
where fermion masses have been neglected. The mass of the Z boson is given by
M Z , and gV, f and g A, f are the vector and axial-vector couplings of the Z boson
14 2 Phenomenology of Jet Substructure
1 dσ 3 3
∗
= f ± 1 + | cos θ ∗ |2 + f 0 | sin θ ∗ |2 , (2.8)
σ d|cos θ | 4 2
where the dependence on c L and c R drops out. It follows that the decay angle dis-
tribution is identical to the one for W bosons, (2.5). Thus, similar as for W bosons,
transversely polarised Z bosons show a more pronounced tail towards larger opening
angles α when compared to longitudinally polarised Z bosons. The only difference
between the α distribution from W and Z boson decays arises from the mass dif-
ference m W and m Z , resulting in a shift towards somewhat larger values of α in the
case of Z bosons at a given momentum (the shift is between 0.1 and 0.01 radians
2.2 General Considerations 15
for momenta between 200 and 2000 GeV). Similar as for W bosons, the differences
in the angular distributions between longitudinal and transverse polarisations can
lead to differences in efficiencies in jet substructure analyses, thus depending on the
production mechanism of the Z boson.
The Higgs boson is the youngest member of the family of SM particles. It has been
predicted already in 1964 [3, 4], but its existence has been verified only in 2012
by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations [1, 2]. It has a mass of m H = 125.09 ±
0.24 GeV [135] and is therefore the second-heaviest particle of the SM. While it
has not been measured with a precision comparable to the one achieved for the
W and Z bosons, all evidence points to it being the SM Higgs boson [7]. Its total
and partial decay widths have been calculated in the SM up to, and including four-
loop massless QCD corrections and two-loop electroweak corrections, see [136–
138] for a complete discussion and references therein. Its branching fractions are
shown in Fig. 2.4. The numerical values of the branching fractions together with
their theoretical uncertainties are given in Table 2.1. The total width, assuming no
invisible decays,4 is H = 4.10 ± 0.06 MeV, for m H = 125.09 GeV.
The fully hadronic decay of the H boson comprises of direct decays into two
quarks, decays into two gluons through loop effects, and decays into pairs of W and
Z bosons with subsequent hadronic decays. In total, the hadronic branching fraction
is B H →had = 80.25 ± 0.86%. Especially relevant for jet substructure applications
is the H → bb decay with a branching fraction of 58.09 ± 0.73%. Here, the pres-
ence of two b quarks facilitates experimental identification using the long lifetime
of B hadrons. The second largest hadronic decay is H → W W ∗ → 4 quarks, with
a branching fraction of 9.79 ± 0.15%. This decay can in principle be distinguished
from QCD branchings due to its four-prong nature, with two quarks having an invari-
ant mass around the W boson mass. Equivalent considerations can be made for the
H → Z Z ∗ → 4 quarks decay, however, this decay has only a branching fraction of
1.29 ± 0.02%. The third largest branching fraction for hadronic decays originates
from the loop-induced H → gg decay, with a rate of 8.18 ± 0.42%. However, at high
boosts, this decay is nearly indistinguishable from QCD branchings and therefore
has not been specifically targeted in substructure analyses so far.
Due to the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson, it has only a single polarisation
state and exhibits an isotropic decay in the centre-of-mass frame. Therefore differ-
ent production mechanisms do not introduce an angular dependence of the decay
fermions.
4 Except for invisible decays in the SM, namely H → Z Z ∗ → ν ν̄ν ν̄ with a branching fraction of
0.11%.
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laws in States farther south. It disfranchises by means of
regulations which practically make it necessary for a voter to
be able to read his ballot. The illiterate are denied any
assistance when they go into the booths, and all emblems are
omitted from the ticket. The color line is not drawn. It is
believed that there are about 32,000 negroes and 16,000 whites
who will not be able to vote under this law. Practically all
of the negroes are supposed to be Republicans, while it is
estimated that the whites are divided about evenly between the
parties."
MASHONALAND:
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MASSACHUSETTS: A. D. 1897.
Recovery of the original manuscript of Governor Bradford's
History of Plymouth Colony, sometimes called "The Log of the
Mayflower."
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left behind him a history of the settlement of Plymouth. It
was quoted by early chroniclers. There are extracts from it in
the records at Plymouth. Thomas Prince used it when he
compiled his annals, Hubbard depended on it when he wrote his
'History of New England,' Cotton Mather had read it, or a copy
of a portion of it, when he wrote his 'Magnalia,' Governor
Hutchinson had it when he published the second volume of his
history in 1767. From that time it disappeared from the
knowledge of everybody on this side of the water. All our
historians speak of it as lost, and can only guess what had
been its fate. …
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address, May 26, 1897,
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'Mayflower.' Indeed, that is the title by which it is
described in the decree of the Consistorial Court of London.
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preparation long after the arrival of the Pilgrims, and it
cannot be properly considered as in any sense a log or daily
journal of the voyage of the 'Mayflower.' It is, in point of
fact, a history of the Plymouth Colony, chiefly in the form of
annals, extending from the inception of the colony down to the
year 1647. The matter has been in print since 1856, put forth
through the public spirit of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, which secured a transcript of the document from
London, and printed it in the Society's Collections of the
above-named year."
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portions of the country, and in fact are almost isolated; and
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a correct census. … The upper lands being the healthiest, most
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make their abode in the cold zone, from 15 to 18 per cent. in
the temperate zone, and from 7 to 10 per cent. in the torrid
zone.
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volume 1, pages 89-90
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Completion of the great drainage tunnel and canal
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the immense 'cut' of Nochistongo, their unsuccessful predecessor,
was the leader among ancient earthworks in all the world. The
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Mexico and the United States,
pages 266-280
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons).
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