65 research outputs found
B--Physics in Hadron Colliders
The possibility of exploring the systematics of the spectroscopy, strong
dynamics, and the weak and rare decay modes of b--quark systems at hadron
colliders such as Fermilab, LHC and SSC, is discussed. A copious yield of
detected --mesons is readily accessible in a dedicated Fermilab
program, and implies a vast array of accessible decay modes, including second
order weak processes and --violation, which will be unavailable elsewhere
until the commissioning of LHC or SSC. Kinematic and flavor tagging, utilizing
the ``daughter pions'' from resonances, is expected to play a major role in
semileptonic weak decay studies and the search for --violation. Plenary
talk, Workshop on Physics at Hadron Accelerators, Snowmass, Colorado, June
25, 1993; Invited Lecture, TASI, Boulder, Colorado, June 18, 1993.Comment: Fermilab-Pub-93/256-T, 23 pages, Latex file, (171 blocks) 3 figures
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Reconstruction of semileptonically decaying beauty hadrons produced in high energy pp collisions
It is well known that in hadron decays with a single unreconstructible
final state particle, the decay kinematics can be solved up to a quadratic
ambiguity, without any knowledge of the hadron momentum. We present a
method to infer the momenta of hadrons produced in hadron collider
experiments using information from their reconstructed flight vectors. Our
method is strictly agnostic to the decay itself, which implies that it can be
validated with control samples of topologically similar decays to fully
reconstructible final states. A multivariate regression algorithm based on the
flight information provides a hadron momentum estimate with a resolution of
around 60% which is sufficient to select the correct solution to the quadratic
equation in around 70% of cases. This will improve the ability of hadron
collider experiments to make differential decay rate measurements with
semileptonic hadron decays.Comment: 18 pages, 17 figures. Updated version to be published in JHE
Data driving the top quark forward--backward asymmetry with a lepton-based handle
We propose that, within the standard model, the correlation between the
forward--backward asymmetry and the corresponding
lepton-based asymmetry -- at the differential level -- is strong and
rather clean both theoretically and experimentally. Hence a combined
measurement of the two distributions as a function of the lepton , a
direct and experimentally clean observable, would lead to a potentially
unbiased and normalization-free test of the standard model prediction. To check
the robustness of our proposal we study how the correlation is affected by
mis-measurement of the system transverse momenta, acceptance cuts,
scale dependence and compare the results of MCFM, POWHEG (with & without PYTHIA
showering), and SHERPA's CSSHOWER in first-emission mode. We find that the
shape of the relative differential distribution is only moderately distorted hence supporting the
usefulness of our proposal. Beyond the first emission, we find that the
correlation is not accurately captured by lowest-order treatment. We also
briefly consider other differential variables such as the system transverse
mass and the canonical invariant mass. Finally, we study new physics
scenarios where the correlation is significantly distorted and therefore can be
more readily constrained or discovered using our method.Comment: 27 pages, 12 figure
Constraining new resonant physics with top spin polarisation information
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the power of including top
quark-polarisation information to kinematically challenging resonance
searches, for which ATLAS and CMS start losing sensitivity. Following the
general modeling and analysis strategies pursued by the experiments, we analyse
the semi-leptonic and the di-lepton channels and show that including
polarisation information can lead to large improvements in the limit setting
procedures with large data sets. This will allow us to set limits for parameter
choices where sensitivity from is not sufficient. This highlights
the importance of spin observables as part of a more comprehensive set of
observables to gain sensitivity to BSM resonance searches.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figure
as a probe of CP phase in at the LHC
We propose to utilize the transverse mass variable and it's
descendant for constraining the CP admixture of the tau lepton
Yukawa coupling at the LHC. We have considered the tau lepton pair produced
from the Higgs boson with each tau decays to a charged pion and a neutrino,
. Recently, for this channel, the
LHC has employed the impact parameter method to measure the CP mixing angle of
tau lepton Yukawa coupling with large uncertainty. The observables we propose
here can be measured in the lab frame without the impact parameter measurement
and in turn, give a complementary probe of the CP admixture of tau lepton
Yukawa. The CP mixing angle, with our method, can be constrained up to
17 (7) with 300 (3000) of integrated luminosity
at the 14 LHC.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking with generalized messenger sector at LHC
We consider the generalized gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking (GMSB)
models with the messenger elds which do not form the complete multiplets of SU(5)
GUT symmetry. Such a situation may happen in the anomalous U(1) GUT scenario
because the mass spectrum of the superheavy particle does not respect SU(5) GUT
symmetry, although the success of the gauge coupling uni cation can be explained.
In this paper, we assume that one pair of the messenger elds gives the dominant
contribution, and the LHC signature for the two possible messengers, X + X and
Q + Q, are examined. We investigate the possibility to measure the deviation from
the usual GUT relation of the gaugino masses which is one of the most important
features of these scenarios.
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Measuring superparticle masses at hadron collider using the transverse mass kink
We present a detailed study of the collider observable applied for
pair-produced superparticles decaying to visible particles and a pair of
invisible lightest supersymmetric particles (LSPs). Analytic expressions of the
maximum of over all events () are derived. It is
noticed that if the decay product of each superparticle involves more than one
visible particles, being a function of the {\it trial} LSP
mass has a kink structure at true LSP mass, which can be
used to determine the mother superparticle mass and the LSP mass
simultaneously. To see how well can be constructed from
collider data, a Monte-Carlo analysis of the gluino is performed for
some superparticle spectra.Comment: Typos corrected. A few references added. Figures update
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