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Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV

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Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol. 76, No. 3, 154, 17.03.2016.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2016, 'Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV', European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, vol. 76, no. 3, 154. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3978-z

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The ATLAS collaboration (2016). Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76(3), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3978-z

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The ATLAS collaboration. Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2016 Mar 17;76(3):154. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3978-z

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV. In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2016 ; Vol. 76, No. 3.

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title = "Identification of boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons and comparisons with ATLAS data taken at √s=8 TeV",
abstract = "This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20.3 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 8 TeV. A range of techniques for optimising the signal jet mass resolution are combined with various jet substructure variables. The results of these studies in Monte Carlo simulations show that a simple pairwise combination of groomed jet mass and one substructure variable can provide a 50 % efficiency for identifying W bosons with transverse momenta larger than 200 GeV while maintaining multijet background efficiencies of 2–4 % for jets with the same transverse momentum. These signal and background efficiencies are confirmed in data for a selection of tagging techniques.",
author = "Barton, {Adam Edward} and Michael Beattie and Guennadi Borissov and Bouhova-Thacker, {Evelina Vassileva} and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Grimm, {Kathryn Ann Tschann} and Henderson, {Robert Charles William} and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Long, {Robin Eamonn} and Love, {Peter Allan} and Harvey Maddocks and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Walder, {James William} and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

AU - Maddocks, Harvey

AU - Skinner, Malcolm

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