The stransverse mass, M_T2, in special cases

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)076zbMATH Open1296.81115arXiv1103.5682OpenAlexW3123889933MaRDI QIDQ457409FDOQ457409

Authors: Christopher G. Lester 

Publication date: 26 September 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This document describes some special cases in which the stransverse mass, MT2, may be calculated by non-iterative algorithms. The most notable special case is that in which the visible particles and the hypothesised invisible particles are massless -- a situation relevant to its current usage in the Large Hadron Collider as a discovery variable, and a situation for which no analytic answer was previously known. We also derive an expression for MT2 in another set of new (though arguably less interesting) special cases in which the missing transverse momentum must point parallel or anti parallel to the visible momentum sum. In addition, we find new derivations for already known MT2 solutions in a manner that maintains manifest contralinear boost invariance throughout, providing new insights into old results. Along the way, we stumble across some unexpected results and make conjectures relating to geometric forms of M_eff and H_T and their relationship to MT2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5682

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetry phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

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• Supersymmetric particle mass measurement with the boost-corrected contransverse mass
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• Could \(M_{T2}\) be a singularity variable?
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