Fat $b$-Jet Analyses Using Old and New Clustering Algorithms in New Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC

Abstract

We compare different jet-clustering algorithms in establishing fully hadronic final states stemming from the chain decay of a heavy Higgs state into a pair of the 125 GeV Higgs boson that decays into bottom-antibottom quark pairs. Such 4$b$ events typically give rise to boosted topologies, wherein bottom-antibottom quark pairs emerging from each 125 GeV Higgs boson tend to merge into a single, fat $b$-jet. Assuming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) settings, we illustrate how both the efficiency of selecting the multi-jet final state and the ability to reconstruct from it the masses of all Higgs bosons depend on the choice of jet-clustering algorithm and its parameter settings. We indicate the optimal choice of clustering method for the purpose of establishing such a ubiquitous Beyond the SM (BSM) signal, illustrated via a Type-II 2-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM).

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