Casimir meets Poisson: improved quark/gluon discrimination with counting observables

Abstract Charged track multiplicity is among the most powerful observables for discriminating quark- from gluon-initiated jets. Despite its utility, it is not infrared and collinear (IRC) safe, so perturbative calculations are limited to studying the energy evolution of multiplicity moments. While I...

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Main Authors: Christopher Frye, Andrew J. Larkoski, Jesse Thaler, Kevin Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)083