Measurement of jet substructure in boosted $t\bar{t}$ events with the ATLAS detector using 140 fb${}^{-1}$ of 13 TeV $pp$ collisions

Abstract

Measurements of the substructure of top-quark jets are presented, using 140 fb${}^{-1}$ of 13 TeV $pp$ collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Top-quark jets reconstructed with the anti-$k_t$ algorithm with a radius parameter $R=1.0$ are selected in top-quark pair ($t\bar{t}$) events where one top quark decays semileptonically and the other hadronically, or where both top quarks decay hadronically. The top-quark jets are required to have transverse momentum $p_{\mathrm{T}}>350$ GeV, yielding large samples of data events with jet $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ values between 350 and 600 GeV. One- and two-dimensional differential cross-sections for eight substructure variables, defined using only the charged components of the jets, are measured in a particle-level phase space by correcting for the smearing and acceptance effects induced by the detector. The differential cross-sections are compared with the predictions of several Monte Carlo simulations in which top-quark pair-production quantum chromodynamic matrix-element calculations at next-to-leading-order precision in the strong coupling constant ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{S}}$ are passed to leading-order parton shower and hadronization generators. The Monte Carlo predictions for measures of the broadness, and also the two-body structure, of the top-quark jets are found to be in good agreement with the measurements, while variables sensitive to the three-body structure of the top-quark jets exhibit some tension with the measured distributions.

arXiv comment71 pages in total, author list starting at page 54, 23 Figures, 3 tables, published as Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 112016. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2019-22

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