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在LHC上识别暗物质事件拓扑

Identifying Dark Matter Event Topologies at the LHC

Yang Bai, Hsin-Chia Cheng

摘要:

假设暗物质粒子可以成对产生在LHC从级联衰变的重粒子,我们研究的策略,以确定事件的拓扑结构的基础上的末态可见粒子的运动学信息。这应该是测量衰变链中新粒子(包括暗物质粒子)质量和自旋的第一步。作为一个具体的例子,我们详细研究了具有4个喷注和能量缺失的末态。这是一个特别具有挑战性的情况,因为大的实验涂抹效应和4个射流之间没有根本的区别。基于同一衰变链上的不变质量粒子在其分布中有一个端点的事实,我们定义了几个函数,这些函数可以根据它们是否表现出端点结构来区分不同的拓扑结构。我们表明,所有可能的拓扑结构(例如,每个衰变链上有两个喷流,或者一个衰变链上有三个喷流,另一个衰变链上有另一个喷流,等等)原则上可以从可见粒子动量的这些函数的分布中识别出来。我们还考虑了一个喷流的情况下,从初始状态的辐射以及离壳衰变。我们的研究表明,事件的拓扑结构可以确定与几百个信号事件后,基本削减。该方法可以很容易地推广到其他事件拓扑。特别是,包含轻子的事件拓扑将更容易,因为端点预计会更尖锐,并且不同电荷的不变质量分布更明显。

英文摘要:

Assuming dark matter particles can be pair-produced at the LHC from cascade decays of heavy particles, we investigate strategies to identify the event topologies based on the kinematic information of final state visible particles. This should be the first step towards measuring the masses and spins of the new particles in the decay chains including the dark matter particle. As a concrete example, we study in detail the final states with 4 jets plus missing energy. This is a particularly challenging scenario because of large experimental smearing effects and no fundamental distinction among the 4 jets. Based on the fact that the invariant mass of particles on the same decay chain has an end point in its distribution, we define several functions which can distinguish different topologies depending on whether they exhibit the end-point structure. We show that all possible topologies (e.g., two jets on each decay chain or three jets on one chain and the other jet on the other chain, and so on) in principle can be identified from the distributions of these functions of the visible particle momenta. We also consider cases with one jet from the initial state radiation as well as off-shell decays. Our studies show that the event topology may be identified with as few as several hundred signal events after basic cuts. The method can be readily generalized to other event topologies. In particular, event topologies including leptons will be easier because the end points are expected to be sharper and there are more distinct invariant mass distributions from different charges.

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