2014

SoftKiller, a particle-level pileup removal method

Cacciari, Matteo, Salam, Gavin P., Soyez, Gregory

Understand

Existing widely-used pileup removal approaches correct the momenta of individual jets.

  • In this article we introduce an event-level, particle-based pileup correction procedure, SoftKiller.
  • It removes the softest particles in an event, up to a transverse momentum threshold that is determined dynamically on an event-by-event basis.
  • In simulations, this simple procedure appears to be reasonably robust and brings superior jet resolution performance compared to existing jet-based approaches.

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