Towards an understanding of jet substructure

by Prof. Gregory Soyez (IPhT Saclay)

Wednesday 2 Dec 2015, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Brussels

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

The field of boosted jets and jet substructure has received a lot of attention over the past few years. I will motivate why this is the case and why this field, corresponding to a basic change of paradigm, will become increasingly important. I will then give a broad overview of the techniques people have introduced so far. In the last part of the talk, I will show some recent progress towards understanding these jet-substructure methods from first principles in QCD.