Subtracted Cumulants: Mitigating Large Background in Jet Substructure
arXiv:1812.06977 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.074030
Abstract
We introduce a new approach for jet physics studies using subtracted cumulants of jet substructure observables, which are shown to be insensitive to contributions from soft-particle emissions uncorrelated with the hard process. Therefore subtracted cumulants allow comparisons between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements without the complication of large background contaminations such as underlying and pile-up events in hadron collisions. We test our method using subtracted jet mass cumulants by comparing Monte Carlo simulations to analytic calculations performed using soft-collinear effective theory. We find that, for proton-proton collisions, the method efficiently eliminates contributions from multiparton interactions and pile-up events. We also find within theoretical uncertainty our analytic calculations are in good agreement with the subtracted cumulants calculated by using ATLAS jet mass measurements.
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