Pileup and underlying event mitigation with iterative constituent subtraction

Abstract The hard-scatter processes in hadronic collisions are often largely contaminated with soft background coming from pileup in proton-proton collisions, or underlying event in heavy-ion collisions. This paper presents a new background subtraction method for jets and event observables (such as...

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Main Authors: P. Berta, L. Masetti, D.W. Miller, M. Spousta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)175