Eur. Phys. J. C (2011) 71: 1661
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1661-y

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Boosted objects: a probe of beyond the standard model physics

¹ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
² School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
³ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
⁴ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738, Zeuthen, Germany
⁵ Fak. für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Hermann-Herder Str. 3, 79104, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
⁶ Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, 136 So. Broadway, Irvington, NY, 10533, USA
⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, WC1E 6BT, London, UK
⁸ Institute of Nuclear Physics P.A.N., ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342, Krakow, Poland
⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Turin, Italy
¹⁰ High Energy Physics Group, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2T8, Canada
¹¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
¹² University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
¹³ Department of Physics, University of Washington, Box 351560, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
¹⁴ CNRS/CC-IN2P3, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
¹⁵ Dalitz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
¹⁶ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
¹⁷ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
¹⁸ Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
¹⁹ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
²⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
²¹ Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, INFN, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126, Milan, Italy
²² Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
²³ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
²⁴ H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK
²⁵ Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
²⁶ Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA
²⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
²⁸ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 60510, USA
²⁹ Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, KIT, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
³⁰ Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
³¹ Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1048, Blindern, 0316, Oslo, Norway
³² LPTHE, UPMC Univ. Paris 6 and CNRS UMR 7589, Paris, France
³³ Department of Physics, Theory Unit, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
³⁴ Center for Particle Physics Phenomenology, CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, M. Denmark
³⁵ CAFPE and Depto. de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos, U. of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
³⁶ Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 Saint George Street, Toronto, M5S 1A7, ON, Canada
³⁷ Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden
³⁸ Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden
³⁹ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA
⁴⁰ Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403-5203, USA
⁴¹ Institute for Theoretical Physics, Uni Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
⁴² Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
⁴³ Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA
⁴⁴ Instituto de Física Corpuscular, IFIC/CSIC-UVEG, P.O. Box 22085, 46071, Valencia, Spain

^* e-mail: muge.karagoz@physics.ox.ac.uk

Received: 22 December 2010
Revised: 27 April 2011
Published online: 2 June 2011

Abstract

We present the report of the hadronic working group of the BOOST2010 workshop held at the University of Oxford in June 2010. The first part contains a review of the potential of hadronic decays of highly boosted particles as an aid for discovery at the LHC and a discussion of the status of tools developed to meet the challenge of reconstructing and isolating these topologies. In the second part, we present new results comparing the performance of jet grooming techniques and top tagging algorithms on a common set of benchmark channels. We also study the sensitivity of jet substructure observables to the uncertainties in Monte Carlo predictions.