Identification of a bottom quark-antiquark pair in a single jet with high transverse momentum and its application

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new approach to identify a bottom quark-antiquark pair inside a single jet with high transverse momentum by using the jet substructure in the center-of-mass frame of the jet. We demonstrate that the method can be used to discriminate the boosted heavy particles decaying to a $b\bar{b}$ final state from QCD jets. Applications to searches for the standard model Higgs boson ($H$) decaying to $b\bar{b}$ when produced in association with a weak vector boson are also discussed.

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. D 92, 093010 (2015). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.4825