Abstract
Jet substructure observables have significantly extended the search program for physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider. The state-of-the-art tools have been motivated by theoretical calculations, but there has never been a direct comparison between data and calculations of jet substructure observables that are accurate beyond leading-logarithm approximation. Such observables are significant not only for probing the collinear regime of QCD that is largely unexplored at a hadron collider, but also for improving the understanding of jet substructure properties that are used in many studies at the Large Hadron Collider. This Letter documents a measurement of the first jet substructure quantity at a hadron collider to be calculated at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm accuracy. The normalized, differential cross section is measured as a function of , where is the ratio of the soft-drop mass to the ungroomed jet transverse momentum. This quantity is measured in dijet events from of proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector. The data are unfolded to correct for detector effects and compared to precise QCD calculations and leading-logarithm particle-level Monte Carlo simulations.
- Received 22 November 2017
- Revised 21 March 2018
- Corrected 29 June 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.092001
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Corrections
29 June 2020
Correction: Figures 1–3 were plotted using an incorrect computation and have been set right. In addition, a small number of errors throughout the Letter in the description of the normalization regions have been fixed.