Gaining (mutual) information about quark/gluon discrimination

Discriminating quark jets from gluon jets is an important but challenging problem in jet substructure. In this paper, we use the concept of mutual information to illuminate the physics of quark/gluon tagging. Ideal quark/gluon separation requires only one bit of truth information, so even if two dis...

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Main Authors: Thaler, Jesse (Contributor), Waalewijn, Wouter J. (Author), Larkoski, Andrew (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2015-02-18T17:59:57Z.
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