Tagging the initial-state gluon

Understand

We study the production of an electroweak boson in association with jets, in processes where the jet with the highest transverse momentum is identified as quark-initiated.

• The quark/gluon tagging procedure is realised by a cut on a jet angularity and it is therefore theoretically well-defined and exhibits infrared and collinear safety.
• In this context, exploiting resummed perturbation theory, we are able to provide theoretical predictions for transverse momentum distributions at a well-defined and, in principle, systematically improvable accuracy.
• In particular, tagging the leading jet as quark-initiated allows us to enhance the initial-state gluon contribution.