https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10314-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Revisiting jet clustering algorithms for new Higgs Boson searches in hadronic final states
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Department of Physics, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University AP, 522240, Amaravati, Mangalagiri, India
2
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK
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Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, OX11 0QX, Didcot, Oxon, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 751 20, Uppsala, Sweden
Received:
28
December
2021
Accepted:
6
April
2022
Published online:
20
April
2022
We assess the performance of different jet-clustering algorithms, in the presence of different resolution parameters and reconstruction procedures, in resolving fully hadronic final states emerging from the chain decay of the discovered Higgs boson into pairs of new identical Higgs states, the latter in turn decaying into bottom-antibottom quark pairs. We show that, at the large hadron collider (LHC), both the efficiency of selecting the multi-jet final state and the ability to reconstruct from it the masses of the Higgs bosons (potentially) present in an event sample depend strongly on the choice of acceptance cuts, jet-clustering algorithm as well as its settings. Hence, we indicate the optimal choice of the latter for the purpose of establishing such a benchmark Beyond the SM (BSM) signal. We then repeat the exercise for a heavy Higgs boson cascading into two SM-like Higgs states, obtaining similar results.
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