On measuring the masses of pair-produced semi-invisibly decaying particles at hadron colliders

Details On measuring the masses of pair-produced semi-invisibly decaying particles at hadron colliders On measuring the masses of pair-produced semi-invisibly decaying particles at hadron colliders

2008-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/0802.2879v3

JHEP0804:034,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, 5 .eps figures, JHEP3 style. Version 3 corrects an error in Eqn. 3.2 and related discussion

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/034

A straightforward new technique is introduced which enables measurement at hadron colliders of an analytical combination of the masses of pair-produced semi-invisibly decaying particles and their invisible decay products. The new technique makes use of the invariance under contra-linear Lorentz boosts of a simple combination of the transverse momentum components of the aggregate visible products of each decay chain. In the general case where the invariant masses of the visible decay products are non-zero it is shown that in principle the masses of both the initial particles from the hard scattering and the invisible particles produced in the decay chains can be determined independently. This application is likely to be difficult to realise in practice however due to the contamination of the final state with ISR jets. The technique may be of most use for measurements of SUSY particle masses at the LHC, however the technique should be applicable to any class of hadron collider events in which heavy particles of unknown mass are pair-produced and decay to semi-invisible final states.

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