Dynamical grooming of QCD jets

Abstract

We propose a new class of infrared-collinear (IRC) and Sudakov safe observables with an associated jet grooming technique that removes dynamically soft and large angle branches. It is based on identifying the hardest branch in the Cambridge/Aachen re-clustering sequence and discarding prior splittings that occur at larger angles. This leads to a dynamically generated cut-off on the phase space of the tagged splitting that is encoded in a Sudakov form factor. In this exploratory study we focus on the mass and momentum sharing distributions of the tagged splitting which we analyze analytically to modified leading logarithmic accuracy and compare to Monte-Carlo simulations.

arXiv comment10 pages, 11 figures. v2: included discussion on gluon-initiated jets; accepted for publication in PRD

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