2014/02/05 by Davison E. Soper, Michael Spannowsky · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Computer science #Deconstruction (building) #Element (criminal law) #Engineering #Event (particle physics) #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Matrix (chemical analysis) #Matrix element #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Parton shower #Physics #Process (computing) #Programming language #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #SIGNAL (programming language) #State (computer science) #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.89.094005
17 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2014/02/05 · openalex publication_date 2014/05/08 · arxiv updated 2014/08/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We develop a matrix element based reconstruction method called event deconstruction. The method uses information from the hard matrix element and a parton shower to assign probabilities to whether a final state was initiated by a signal or background process. We apply this method in the signal process of a Z^\ensuremath' decaying to boosted top quarks in an all hadronic final state and discuss envisioned improvements of the method. We find that event deconstruction can considerably improve on existing reconstruction techniques.