arXiv:1704.05066hep-ph
Exposing the QCD Splitting Function with CMS Open Data
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Abstract
The splitting function is a universal property of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which describes how energy is shared between partons. Despite its ubiquitous appearance in many QCD calculations, the splitting function cannot be measured directly since it always appears multiplied by a collinear singularity factor. Recently, however, a new jet substructure observable was introduced which asymptotes to the splitting function for sufficiently high jet energies. This provides a way to expose the splitting function through jet substructure measurements at the Large Hadron Collider. In this letter, we use public data released by the CMS experiment to study the 2-prong substructure of jets and test the 1 -> 2 splitting function of QCD. To our knowledge, this is the first ever physics analysis based on the CMS Open Data.
For datasets from any field there is Zenodo[1] and for particle physics there is hepdata[2]. There is also the CERN opendata portal but this tends to be more about releasing large datasets which require non trivial efforts to analyse. I thought this would be too difficult to…
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