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利用单个短衰变链测量不可见粒子质量

Measuring Invisible Particle Masses Using a Single Short Decay Chain

Hsin-Chia Cheng, Jiayin Gu

摘要:

我们考虑在强子对撞机上对两步衰变链的质量测量,衰变链以一个丢失的粒子结束。这种拓扑结构是许多新物理模型中信号事件的子过程,这些新物理模型包含了暗物质的候选者。来自衰变链的两个可见粒子只能形成一个不变质量组合,因此很天真地认为衰变链中三个不可见粒子的质量不能从不变质量分布的单个端点确定。我们表明,事件分布在$\log(E_{1T}/E_{2T})$与不变的质量平方平面,其中$E_{1T}$,$E_{2T}$是两个可见粒子的横向能量,包含所有三个不可见粒子的质量的信息,并允许它们被单独提取。实验拖尾和组合问题对质量测量提出了挑战。然而,在许多情况下,衰变链中的三个不可见粒子的质量可以以合理的精度确定。

英文摘要:

We consider the mass measurement at hadron colliders for a decay chain of two steps, which ends with a missing particle. Such a topology appears as a subprocess of signal events of many new physics models which contain a dark matter candidate. From the two visible particles coming from the decay chain, only one invariant mass combination can be formed and hence it is naïvely expected that the masses of the three invisible particles in the decay chain cannot be determined from a single end point of the invariant mass distribution. We show that the event distribution in the $\log(E_{1T}/E_{2T})$ vs. invariant mass-squared plane, where $E_{1T}$, $E_{2T}$ are the transverse energies of the two visible particles, contains the information of all three invisible particle masses and allows them to be extracted individually. The experimental smearing and combinatorial issues pose challenges to the mass measurements. However, in many cases the three invisible particle masses in the decay chain can be determined with reasonable accuracies.

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