<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">FYI: Interesting HEP seminar on substructure tomorrow. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">john (by way of Richard) </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br>DATE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2014<br><br>TIME: 1:30P.M. <br><br>PLACE: ACC 211 <br><br>SPEAKER: Tim Cohen, SLAC<br><br>TITLE: “Jet Substructure by Accident” <br><br>ABSTRACT: <span style="font-size:12pt">We propose a new search strategy for high-multiplicity hadronic final states. When new particles are produced at threshold, the distribution of their decay products is approximately isotropic. If there are many partons in the final state, it is likely that several will be clustered into the same large-radius jet. The resulting jet exhibits substructure, even though the parent states are not boosted. This “accidental” substructure is a powerful discriminant against background because it is more pronounced for high-multiplicity signals than for QCD multijets. We demonstrate how to take advantage of accidental substructure to reduce backgrounds without relying on the presence of missing energy. As an example, we present the expected limits for several R-parity violating gluino decay topologies. This approach also is amenable to a novel method for determining QCD predictions using templates -- probability distribution functions for jet substructure properties as a function of kinematic inputs. Templates can be extracted from a control region and then used to compute background distributions in the signal region. Using Monte Carlo, we will demonstrate the procedure with two case studies and show that the template approach effectively models the relevant QCD background. This work strongly motivates the application</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">of these techniques to LHC data.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">University of Chicago</span><br><a href="http://hep.uchicago.edu/~johnda" target="_blank">http://hep.uchicago.edu/~johnda</a></div>
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