Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-02-20
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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