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The identification of the origin of hadronic jets is a key aspect in particle physics at hadron colliders. In this talk I will discuss the separation of hadronic jets that contain bottom quarks (b-jets) from jets featuring only light partons using a newly developed approach reported in arXiv:2202.05082 [hep-ph].
This approach exploits QCD-inspired jet substructure observables, such as one-dimensional jet angularities and the two-dimensional primary Lund plane, as inputs to modern machine-learning algorithms to efficiently separate b-jets from light ones. In order to test our tagging procedure, we consider simulated events where a Z boson is produced is association with jets and show that using jet angularities as an input for a deep neural network, as well as using images obtained from the primary Lund jet plane as input to a convolutional neural network, one can achieve tagging accuracy comparable with the accuracy of track-based taggers used by the LHC experiments. We argue that the complementary usage of the track-based taggers together with the ones based upon QCD-inspired observables could improve b-tagging accuracy.
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