Abstract
The performance of identification algorithms (“taggers”) for hadronically decaying top quarks and W bosons in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. A set of techniques based on jet shape observables are studied to determine a set of optimal cut-based taggers for use in physics analyses. The studies are extended to assess the utility of combinations of substructure observables as a multivariate tagger using boosted decision trees or deep neural networks in comparison with taggers based on two-variable combinations. In addition, for highly boosted top-quark tagging, a deep neural network based on jet constituent inputs as well as a re-optimisation of the shower deconstruction technique is presented. The performance of these taggers is studied in data collected during 2015 and 2016 corresponding to 36.1 fb−1 for the tt̅ and γ+jet and 36.7 fb−1 for the dijet event topologies.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 375 |
Number of pages | 54 |
Journal | Eur. Phys. J. C |
Volume | 79 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Apr 2019 |
Bibliographical note
79 pages in total, author list starting page 63, 39 figures, 6 tables, submitted to The European Physical Journal C. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/JETM-2018-03Keywords
- hep-ex