Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2113
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2113-z

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Structure of fat jets at the Tevatron and beyond

¹ Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
² Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
³ Institute for Theoretical Science, 5203 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403-5203, USA
⁴ Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

^* e-mail: leandro.almeida@cea.fr

Received: 12 June 2012
Published online: 28 August 2012

Abstract

The presence of new sources of massive boosted particles associated with processes probing the electroweak scale is a logical possibility that forms a solid window towards physics beyond the standard model. Such objects when decaying into hadronic final states can easily blend with the cornucopia of jets interpolated from essentially massless fundamental QCD states. We review jet observables and algorithms that can contribute to the identification of highly boosted heavy jets and the possible searches that can make use of such substructure information. We also review previous studies by CDF of boosted massive jets and measurement of jet shape observables.