Theorie-Palaver

Feb. 8, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEP

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

Boosted Tops at the LHC
Tilman Plehn (Universitaet Heidelberg)


I will briefly review some recent developments to address different experimental issues in Higgs and new physics searches by looking for so-called fat jets. These are jets from heavy particles, like a Higgs boson or a top quark, which decay to hadronic final states. Such fat jets can be tagged and reconstructed in analogy to a bottom jet. For example, a top tag allows us to extract supersymmetric top squark signals from their overwhelming backgrounds.