Study of semi-boosted top quark reconstruction performance on the line shape of a $t\bar{t}$ resonance [article]

J. Pácalt, J. Kvita
2021
We study the top quark pair events production in $pp$ collisions in the $\ell$+jets channel at the LHC energy of $\sqrt{s} = 14$ TeV for Standard Model as well as new physics processes. We explore the usage of semi-boosted topologies where the top quark decays into a boosted hadronic $W$-jet and an isolated $b$-jet and study their performance in the $t\bar{t}$ events kinematic reconstruction. An efficiency increase is observed and the correlation of selected kinematic variables between the
more » ... tor and particle level is studied. Quality of the reconstructed mass line shape of a $Z'$ model with applications in current LHC experiments is evaluated. The results of the unfolding procedure for chosen spectra and an explicit proof of a slight degradation in the signal significance after the unfolding procedure are presented using the Fully Bayesian unfolding technique.
doi:10.48550/arxiv.2106.01243 fatcat:oil7my4cgjddfotqyb4pqknijq