Dark Matter Particle Spectroscopy at the LHC: Generalizing M(T2) to Asymmetric Event Topologies
Description/Abstract
We consider SUSY-like missing energy events at hadron colliders and critically examine the common assumption that the missing energy is the result of two identical missing particles. In order to experimentally test this hypothesis, we generalize the subsystem M{sub T2} variable to the case of asymmetric event topologies, where the two SUSY decay chains terminate in different 'children' particles. In this more general approach, the endpoint M{sub T2(max)} of the M{sub T2} distribution now gives the mass {tilde M}p({tilde M}{sub c}{sup (a)}, {tilde M}{sub c}{sup (b)}) of the parent particles as a function of two input children masses {tilde M}{sub c}{sup (a)} and {tilde M}{sub c}{sup (b)}. We propose two methods for an independent determination of the individual children masses M{sub c}{sup (a)} and M{sub c}{sup (b)}. First, in the presence of upstream transverse momentum PUTM the corresponding function {tilde M}p({tilde M}{sub c}{sup (a)}, {tilde M}{sub c}{sup (b)}, P{sub UTM}) is independent of P{sub UTM} at precisely the right values of the children masses. Second, the previously discussed MT2 'kink' is now generalized to a 'ridge' on the 2-dimensional surface {tilde M}p({tilde M}{sub c}{sup (a)}, {tilde M}{sub c}{sup (b)}). As we show in several examples, quite often there is a special point along that ridge which marks the true values of the children masses. Our results allow collider experiments to probe a multi-component dark matter sector directly and without any theoretical prejudice.
| Creator/Author: | Konar, Partha ; /Florida U. ; Kong, Kyoungchul ; /SLAC ; Matchev, Konstantin T. ; Park, Myeonghun ; /Florida U. |
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| Publication Date: | 2012 Apr 03 |
| OSTI Identifier: | OSTI ID: 1038016 |
| Report Number(s): | SLAC-PUB-14918 |
| DOE Contract Number: | AC02-76SF00515 |
| Other Number(s): | Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; Other: arXiv:0911.4126; TRN: US1201733 |
| Resource Type: | Journal Article |
| Resource Relation: | Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2010; Journal Issue: 4 |
| Research Org: | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) |
| Sponsoring Org: | USDOE |
| Subject: | 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; DECAY; DISTRIBUTION; HADRONS; HYPOTHESIS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PROBES; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERSYMMETRY; TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM |
| Related Subject: | Phenomenology-HEP,HEPPH |
| Country of Publication: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | Size: 46 pages |
| Availability: | http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-14918.html |
| Update Date: | 2012 Dec 05 |
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