Reconstructing particle masses from pairs of decay chains

Details Reconstructing particle masses from pairs of decay chains Reconstructing particle masses from pairs of decay chains

2010-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/1005.2532v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

12 pages, 5 figures

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A method is proposed for determining the masses of the new particles N,X,Y,Z in collider events containing a pair of effectively identical decay chains Z to Y+jet, Y to X+l_1, X to N+l_2, where l_1, l_2 are opposite-sign same-flavour charged leptons and N is invisible. By first determining the upper edge of the dilepton invariant mass spectrum, we reduce the problem to a curve for each event in the 3-dimensional space of mass-squared differences. The region through which most curves pass then determines the unknown masses. A statistical approach is applied to take account of mismeasurement of jet and missing momenta. The method is easily visualized and rather robust against combinatorial ambiguities and finite detector resolution. It can be successful even for small event samples, since it makes full use of the kinematical information from every event.

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