2014/07/31 by Daniele Bertolini, Philip Harris, Matthew Low +1 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep10(2014)059
published as JHEP 1410 (2014) 59 · v2 - 23 pages, 10 figures; update to JHEP version, minor revisions throughout, results unchanged
arxiv created 2014/09/30 · arxiv updated 2014/10/28
We propose a new method for pileup mitigation by implementing "pileup per particle identification" (PUPPI). For each particle we first define a local shape α which probes the collinear versus soft diffuse structure in the neighborhood of the particle. The former is indicative of particles originating from the hard scatter and the latter of particles originating from pileup interactions. The distribution of α for charged pileup, assumed as a proxy for all pileup, is used on an event-by-event basis to calculate a weight for each particle. The weights describe the degree to which particles are pileup-like and are used to rescale their four-momenta, superseding the need for jet-based corrections. Furthermore, the algorithm flexibly allows combination with other, possibly experimental, probabilistic information associated with particles such as vertexing and timing performance. We demonstrate the algorithm improves over existing methods by looking at jet pT and jet mass. We also find an improvement on non-jet quantities like missing transverse energy.