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Exploring the space of jets with CMS Open Data

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Naik, Preksha.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Jesse Thaler.
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We conduct two physics studies on the space of jets using the CMS 2011 Open Data, experimental data of 7 TeV proton-proton collisions from the 2011 Run at the Large Hadron Collider released by the CMS collaboration for public use. Our first study uses the Energy Mover's Distance (EMD), a metric that quantifies the similarity in radiation pattern between two jets. This metric allows us to perform novel visualizations of the data including embedding the data into low-dimensional spaces and providing us a new method for quantifying detector effects. Our second study applies the jet topics method to find separate quark and gluon observable distributions. This method is closely related to topic modeling, a statistical model in natural language processing to find topics in a collection of documents. Lastly, we release a sample of over 800,000 high-quality jets from the 2011 run as well as the accompanying jets from the CMS-provided Monte Carlo samples. The aim of this release is to allow future physics studies to bypass the time-consuming steps of processing and validating the CMS Open Data.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
 
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
 
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-70).
 
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2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123044
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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