2$b$ or not 2$b$: on the rejection of $g\to b\bar{b}$ jets

Abstract

Motivated by new physics models which lead to final states containing a high multiplicity of bottom and top quarks, we develop a tagging strategy to suppress reducible and non-reducible multi-jet backgrounds. The idea takes advantage of the properties of light parton showers and of the gluon fragmentation into heavy quarks to reject jets that do not originate from a bottom quark.

Comments: 23 pages, 16 figures. Version accepted for publication on JHEP