Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-01-31
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, 6 figures; Discussion simplified
Scientific paper
We present an improved method of reconstructing New Physics (NP) masses from invariant mass endpoints. While the traditional method focuses on a single NP decay, our method considers the decays of two or more NP particles ($ABC...$) in a grander decay chain: $ anything \to ABC... \to ... \to jets + leptons$. Though the center-of-mass energy $E_{CM}$ of `anything' varies unpredictably at a hadron collider, a sample of many events nonetheless expresses features of threshold production $E_{CM} = m_A + m_B + ...$: invariant masses constructed from the final jet and lepton momenta are correlated in a way that makes their threshold endpoints visually obvious in a scatterplot. We illustrate this technique for the production of two neutralinos in the MSSM: $anything \to \widetilde{\chi}_{i}^0 \widetilde{\chi}_{j}^0$ ($i,j=2,3,4$) which subsequently decay via on- or off-shell sleptons to four leptons. Assuming the relevant SUSY spectrum is below $1 TeV$ and squarks/gluinos eventually decay to neutralinos, our MC study shows that one low-luminosity year at the LHC ($10-30 fb^{-1}$) can quantitatively determine on- versus off-shell decays and find the relevant neutralino and slepton masses to less than 10 percent.
Huang Pu
Kersting Nicholas
Yang Hui-jie
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