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Abstract
In this thesis, the groomed jet mass of hadronically decaying W bosons and top quarks is analyzed in data of proton-proton collisions from the LHC at √s = 13 TeV. The data were collected by the CMS experiment in the years 2016 to 2018 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138fb-1. Two analyses are presented using events in which the W boson or top quark has a large transverse momentum and thus produces strongly collimated decay products reconstructed as single large-radius jets. Such boosted jets are produced at the LHC at a high rate. They are subject of many Standard Model measurements and beyond the Standard Model searches alike and therefore a precise measurement and understanding of such jets is of wide use. Boosted jets can be identified by studying their substructure, in particular, the jet mass is sensitive as it is a measure of the mass of the W boson or top quark. Previous measurements of jet mass have been carried out for gluon, quark and top jets in dijet, Z(ll)+jet and tt̄ samples, while the measurement of W jet mass has not been performed yet and is for the first time pursued in this thesis. The substructure of these jets serves as a valuable tool in various processes such as jet calibration and jet tagging/identification. However, there is still room for enhancement in understanding this substructure due to imperfect modeling of effects arising from perturbative QCD (parton showers) and non-perturbative QCD (hadronization of partons) in simulations. One aspect that is particularly difficult to predict is that large-radius jets encompass soft and wide-angle radiation, which obscures jet substructure variables. To mitigate this issue, jet grooming algorithms are applied here.
In the first analysis, precise correction factors to the simulation for the groomed jet mass scale of W jets and top jets are measured in bins of the transverse momentum from 500 to 1200 GeV of the ungroomed jet in samples of semileptonic tt̄ events and fully-hadronic W(qq̄) events. The correction factors are measured in a simultaneous fit to data in signal and control regions. The main challenge here is the dominant QCD multijet background in the W(qq̄), which is estimated using a sophisticated method from control region data. The signal and control regions are constructed using two different boosted jet tagging approaches to compare their effect on the jet mass scale. Further, the correction factors are studied to estimate the correlation between the jet mass scale and the jet energy scale in the CMS experiment. The final correction factor measurement reaches a high precision of ∼ 1% and shows a residual difference of the jet mass scale between data and simulation of under only 2% in a largely extended range of transverse momentum up to 1200 GeV using a calibration sample with W(qq̄) for the first time.
The second analysis is the first measurement of the groomed jet mass distribution of W jets in bins of the transverse momentum on particle-level in data. For the measurement, a two-dimensional maximum likelihood unfolding is performed in fully-hadronic W(qq̄) events. The unfolded data and the compared prediction from simulation at LO+MLM accuracy with NLO (QCD and EWK) corrections are in agreement within the uncertainties. The uncertainty on the unfolded data distribution in the W mass peak region is between 30–80% in the range of transverse momentum from 650–1200 GeV. With the planned HL-LHC, higher precision can be reached, however, requiring significantly reduced systematic uncertainties in jet substructure modeling. This study is an important first step towards a measurement of the W mass in the all-jets final state.