The structure of jets at hadron colliders

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Abstract: Jets are collimated, high energy streams of particles that are ubiquitous at hadron colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It has been recognized that jets are a feature of the strong force, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). QCD predicts an approximate scaling behavior at high energies. Due to the very high energies made available by the LHC, the decay products of heavy, unstable particles can also be collimated into a narrow cone and these are observed as jets by the LHC experiments. Recently, there has been significant interest in studying the substructure of jets with the goal of discriminating QCD jets from jets initiated by heavy particle decay. In this thesis, I will describe the modeling of jets in QCD as well as the pattern of radiation from heavy particles, such as the top quark. This will lead to a discussion of a correlation function on the constituents of a jet that is useful in understanding jet substructure. This correlation function encodes angular scaling properties of jets and its behavior in QCD will be studied.

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Publication date	2012
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Associated with	Larkoski, Andrew James
Associated with	Stanford University, Department of Physics
Primary advisor	Peskin, Michael Edward, 1951-
Thesis advisor	Peskin, Michael Edward, 1951-
Thesis advisor	Hewett, JoAnne L
Thesis advisor	Kachru, Shamit, 1970-
Advisor	Hewett, JoAnne L
Advisor	Kachru, Shamit, 1970-

Genre	Theses

Statement of responsibility	Andrew J. Larkoski.
Note	Submitted to the Department of Physics.
Thesis	Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012.
Location	electronic resource

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