Jet Substructure at the Tevatron and LHC: New Results, New Tools, New Benchmarks

331 citations (208 excluding self-citations). The second BOOST report, bridging the gap between theoretical proposals and the first real data from Tevatron and LHC substructure analyses.

The Approach

Following the BOOST 2010 report, this edition reviews the rapidly evolving landscape of jet substructure tools alongside the first experimental results using these techniques. The report presents new benchmark comparisons focused on top-tagging algorithms, reviews the status of perturbative QCD calculations and Monte Carlo tools for substructure, and publishes harmonized software implementations to ensure reproducibility across groups. The BOOST 2012 report continued this series.

Recollections

By the third year, BOOST was starting to feel like a real institution rather than an experiment. The first Tevatron and LHC substructure results were coming in, and the proceedings shifted from purely theoretical benchmarking to comparing tools against actual data. The decision to publish harmonized software implementations was important: it meant that anyone could reproduce the comparisons, and the community had a shared codebase rather than a collection of private scripts. The series was finding its rhythm, and the proceedings were becoming reference documents that experimentalists at ATLAS and CMS used when designing their analyses.

• DOI
• arXiv:1201.0008
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