Measurement of the Lund plane for light- and beauty-quark jets



Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Beteta, C Abellan, Abudinen, F, Ackernley, T, Adefisoye, AA, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Agapopoulou, C
et al (show 1129 more authors) (2025) Measurement of the Lund plane for light- and beauty-quark jets PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 112 (7). pp. 1-22. ISSN 2470-0010, 2470-0029

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Abstract

The substructure of jets in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has garnered significant attention with the advent of infrared- and collinear-safe clustering algorithms and observables. A key question emerging from these studies is how in-jet emissions at soft and hard energy scales, across collinear and wide angles relative to the emitter, differ with the mass of the emitting parton. The Lund jet plane (LJP) is a perturbatively well-defined substructure observable that maps the radiation pattern of jets onto a plane, visually distinguishing emissions with different kinematic properties. Comparing LJP for jets containing hadrons of low versus high mass enables the testing of QCD splitting functions from first-principles calculations across both soft and hard regimes and at different radiation angles. This article presents the first measurement of the LJP for light-quark-enriched and beauty-initiated jets at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at LHCb. This marks the first direct observation of the dead-cone effect in beauty-quark jets, measured in the collinear region of the LJP.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 51 Physical Sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Faculty of Science & Engineering
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Engineering
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences > Physics
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of the Arts > Architecture
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2025 09:08
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2026 07:10
DOI: 10.1103/r16d-b4my
Open Access URL: https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/r16d-b4my
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