Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample

Abstract We propose a new strategy to obtain a high-purity sample of gluon-initiated jets at the LHC. Our approach, inspired by the Lund jet plane picture, is to perform a dijet selection where the two jets are collinear to each other and their momentum fraction share is highly asymmetric, and to me...

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Main Authors: Cristian Baldenegro, Alba Soto-Ontoso, Gregory Soyez
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Published: SpringerOpen 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)088
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description Abstract We propose a new strategy to obtain a high-purity sample of gluon-initiated jets at the LHC. Our approach, inspired by the Lund jet plane picture, is to perform a dijet selection where the two jets are collinear to each other and their momentum fraction share is highly asymmetric, and to measure the primary Lund plane density of emissions of the subleading jet. The subleading jet in this topology is practically equivalent to a secondary Lund jet plane. We demonstrate by means of fixed-order calculations that such a simple setup yields (Born-level) gluon jet fractions of around 90% for the subleading jet for both quark- and gluon-initiated jets. This observation is confirmed using hadron-level Monte Carlo generated events. We also show that the extracted gluon purities are highly resilient to the overall colour structure of the event, to the flavour of the hard-scattering process, and to the parton distribution functions. This strategy is well-suited for constraining the radiation pattern of gluon-initiated jets using a set of fiducial cuts that can readily be tested at the LHC, without relying on taggers or statistical demixing.
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spelling doaj-art-176f7510c8f94facb718bc03cb32a5d92025-08-20T03:45:44ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792025-07-012025712410.1007/JHEP07(2025)088Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sampleCristian Baldenegro0Alba Soto-Ontoso1Gregory Soyez2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceDepartamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de GranadaUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Institut de physique théoriqueAbstract We propose a new strategy to obtain a high-purity sample of gluon-initiated jets at the LHC. Our approach, inspired by the Lund jet plane picture, is to perform a dijet selection where the two jets are collinear to each other and their momentum fraction share is highly asymmetric, and to measure the primary Lund plane density of emissions of the subleading jet. The subleading jet in this topology is practically equivalent to a secondary Lund jet plane. We demonstrate by means of fixed-order calculations that such a simple setup yields (Born-level) gluon jet fractions of around 90% for the subleading jet for both quark- and gluon-initiated jets. This observation is confirmed using hadron-level Monte Carlo generated events. We also show that the extracted gluon purities are highly resilient to the overall colour structure of the event, to the flavour of the hard-scattering process, and to the parton distribution functions. This strategy is well-suited for constraining the radiation pattern of gluon-initiated jets using a set of fiducial cuts that can readily be tested at the LHC, without relying on taggers or statistical demixing.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)088Jets and Jet SubstructureParton Shower
spellingShingle Cristian Baldenegro
Alba Soto-Ontoso
Gregory Soyez
Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample
Journal of High Energy Physics
Jets and Jet Substructure
Parton Shower
title Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample
title_full Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample
title_fullStr Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample
title_full_unstemmed Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample
title_short Secondary Lund jet plane as a gluon-enriched sample
title_sort secondary lund jet plane as a gluon enriched sample
topic Jets and Jet Substructure
Parton Shower
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)088
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