The Cambridge jet algorithm: features and applications

Abstract.

Jet clustering algorithms are widely used to analyse hadronic events in high energy collisions. Recently a new clustering method, known as ‘Cambridge’, has been introduced. In this article we present an algorithm to determine the transition values of $y_{\mathrm{cut}}$ for this clustering scheme, which allows to resolve any event to a definite number of jets in the final state. We discuss some particularities of the Cambridge clustering method and compare its performance to the Durham clustering scheme for Monte Carlo generated $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ annihilation events.