Resolving Combinatorial Ambiguities in Dilepton $t\bar t$ Event Topologies with Constrained $M_2$ Variables
Phys. Rev. D 96, 076005 (2017) We advocate the use of on-shell constrained $M_2$ variables in order to mitigate the combinatorial problem in SUSY-like events with two invisible particles at the LHC. We show that in comparison to other approaches in the literature, the constrained $M_2$ variables pro...
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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15.06.2017
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Summary: | Phys. Rev. D 96, 076005 (2017) We advocate the use of on-shell constrained $M_2$ variables in order to
mitigate the combinatorial problem in SUSY-like events with two invisible
particles at the LHC. We show that in comparison to other approaches in the
literature, the constrained $M_2$ variables provide superior ansatze for the
unmeasured invisible momenta and therefore can be usefully applied to
discriminate combinatorial ambiguities. We illustrate our procedure with the
example of dilepton $t\bar{t}$ events. We critically review the existing
methods based on the Cambridge $M_{T2}$ variable and MAOS-reconstruction of
invisible momenta, and show that their algorithm can be simplified without loss
of sensitivity, due to a perfect correlation between events with complex
solutions for the invisible momenta and events exhibiting a kinematic endpoint
violation. Then we demonstrate that the efficiency for selecting the correct
partition is further improved by utilizing the $M_2$ variables instead.
Finally, we also consider the general case when the underlying mass spectrum is
unknown, and no kinematic endpoint information is available. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04995 |