Journal Article

Flavoured jet algorithms: a comparative study

Giuli, Francesco, Xu, Ruide, Stagnitto, Giovanni, Napoletano, Davide, Reichelt, Daniel, Rescia, Alberto, Grabarczyk, Radosław, Marzani, Simone, Siódmok, Andrzej, Hinzmann, Andreas, Salam, Gavin P., Poncelet, Rene, Caletti, Simone, Whitehead, James, Behring, Arnd, Huss, Alexander, Lesser, Ezra D., Scyboz, Ludovic, Huston, Joey, Sforza, Federico

2025

Overview

A bstract The accurate identification of heavy-flavour jets — those which originate from bottom or charm quarks — is crucial for precision studies of the Standard Model and searches for new physics. However, assigning flavour to jets presents significant challenges, primarily due to issues with infrared and collinear (IRC) safety. This paper aims to address these challenges by evaluating recently-proposed jet algorithms designed to be IRC-safe and applicable in high-precision measurements. We compare these algorithms across benchmark heavy-flavour production processes and kinematic regimes that are relevant for LHC phenomenology. Exploiting both fixed-order calculations in QCD as well as parton shower simulations, we analyse the infrared sensitivity of these new algorithms at different stages of the event evolution and compare to flavour labelling strategies currently adopted by LHC collaborations. The results highlight that, while all algorithms lead to more robust flavour assignments compared to current techniques, they vary in performance depending on the observable and energy regime. The study lays groundwork for robust, flavour-aware jet analyses in current and future collider experiments to maximise the physics potential of experimental data by reducing discrepancies between theoretical and experimental methods.

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V,SpringerOpen
• Subject: Algorithms / Charm (particle physics) / Classical and Quantum Gravitation / Comparative studies / Elementary Particles / Flavor (particle physics) / Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations / Infrared analysis / Jets and Jet Substructure / Kinematics / Large Hadron Collider / Partons / Phenomenology / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Quantum Field Theories / Quantum Field Theory / Quantum Physics / Regular Article - Theoretical Physics / Relativity Theory / Robustness / Specific QCD Phenomenology / Standard model (particle physics) / String Theory