Many analyses at the CERN LHC exploit the substructure of jets to identify heavy resonances produced with high momenta that decay into multiple quarks and/or gluons. This paper presents a new technique for correcting the substructure of simulated large-radius jets from multiprong decays. The technique is based on reclustering the jet constituents into several subjets such that each subjet represents a single prong, and separately correcting the radiation pattern in the Lund jet plane of each subjet using a correction derived from data. The data presented here correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{−1}$ collected by the CMS experiment between 2016–2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The correction procedure improves the agreement between data and simulation for several different substructure observables of multiprong jets. This technique establishes, for the first time, a robust calibration for the substructure of jets with four or more prongs, enabling future measurements and searches for new phenomena containing these signatures.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
Bein, S., Benecke, A., Bethani, A., Bruno, G., Cappati, A., de Favereau de Jeneret, J., Delaere, C., Giammanco, A., Guzel, A. O., Lemaitre, V., Lidrych, J., Malek, P., Mastrapasqua, P., Turkcapar, S., CMS, & et al. (2025). A method for correcting the substructure of multiprong jets using the Lund jet plane. Journal of High Energy Physics, 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2025)038 (Original work published 2025)