The Use of Minimal Spanning Trees in Particle Physics

Minimal spanning trees (MSTs) have been used in cosmology and astronomy to distinguish distributions of points in a multi-dimensional space. They are essentially unknown in particle physics, however. We briefly define MSTs and illustrate their properties through a series of examples. We show how the...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-02
Main Authors: Jessica Lovelace Rainbolt, Schmitt, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomy
Cosmology
Graph theory
Particle physics
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Summary:Minimal spanning trees (MSTs) have been used in cosmology and astronomy to distinguish distributions of points in a multi-dimensional space. They are essentially unknown in particle physics, however. We briefly define MSTs and illustrate their properties through a series of examples. We show how they might be applied to study a typical event sample from a collider experiment and conclude that MSTs may prove useful in distinguishing different classes of events.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1608.04772