Flavored jets with exact anti-<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math> kinematics and tests of infrared and collinear safety

Abstract

A longstanding goal in collider analysis has been to assign flavor consistently to jets of final state particles which can then be associated with the initial partons coming from hard scattering processes. This paper presents ``Interleaved Flavor Neutralization'' to define jets with infrared- and collinear-safe (IRC safe) flavor and clustering properties similar to successful kinematic jet definitions. The authors carry out detailed checks to show the algorithm is IRC safe to at least sixth order in the strong coupling constant.

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