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This concise primer reviews the latest developments in the field of
jets. Jets are collinear sprays of hadrons produced in very
high-energy collisions, e.g. at the LHC or at a future hadron
collider. They are essential to and ubiquitous in experimental
analyses, making their study crucial. At present LHC energies and
beyond, massive particles around the electroweak scale are
frequently produced with transverse momenta that are much larger
than their mass, i.e., boosted. The decay products of such boosted
massive objects tend to occupy only a relatively small and confined
area of the detector and are observed as a single jet. Jets hence
arise from many different sources and it is important to be able to
distinguish the rare events with boosted resonances from the large
backgrounds originating from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This
requires familiarity with the internal properties of jets, such as
their different radiation patterns, a field broadly known as jet
substructure. This set of notes begins by providing a
phenomenological motivation, explaining why the study of jets and
their substructure is of particular importance for the current and
future program of the LHC, followed by a brief but insightful
introduction to QCD and to hadron-collider phenomenology. The next
section introduces jets as complex objects constructed from a
sequential recombination algorithm. In this context some
experimental aspects are also reviewed. Since jet substructure
calculations are multi-scale problems that call for all-order
treatments (resummations), the bases of such calculations are
discussed for simple jet quantities. With these QCD and jet physics
ingredients in hand, readers can then dig into jet substructure
itself. Accordingly, these notes first highlight the main concepts
behind substructure techniques and introduce a list of the main jet
substructure tools that have been used over the past decade.
Analytic calculations are then provided for several families of
tools, the goal being to identify their key characteristics. In
closing, the book provides an overview of LHC searches and
measurements where jet substructure techniques are used, reviews
the main take-home messages, and outlines future perspectives.
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