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NPA Seminar: Jennifer Roloff, Brown University

Event time: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Wright Lab, WL-216 (Conference Room) See map
272 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Admission: 
Free
Event description: 

Talk Title: Any way you slice it: The Lund jet plane as a unique probe of QCD

Abstract: Jet substructure is a versatile tool which has been applied to identify jets originating from different particles, enabling a wide range of searches and measurements at the LHC. Beyond simply tagging jets, it is also a sensitive probe of QCD across a wide range of energy scales, giving insight into the formation and evolution of jets. While a useful tool, jet substructure is notoriously difficult to describe, and mismodeling of this rich inner structure limits its effectiveness. In this talk, I will discuss how jet substructure measurements enable a new paradigm for studying jet formation, with direct connections to testing new theoretical descriptions. I will focus on how the Lund jet plane has provided a new framework for testing different theoretical effects. I will then focus on a recent measurement by the ATLAS experiment of the Lund subjet multiplicity to illustrate how these measurements can provide precision tests of parton shower models, enabling more advanced descriptions of jet formation.

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