A flexible and efficient approach for missing transverse momentum reconstruction
Abstract
Missing transverse momentum is a crucial observable for physics at hadron colliders, being the only constraint on the kinematics of "invisible" objects such as neutrinos and hypothetical dark matter particles. Computing missing transverse momentum at the highest possible precision, particularly in experiments at the energy frontier, can be a challenging procedure due to ambiguities in the distribution of energy and momentum between many reconstructed particle candidates. This paper describes a novel solution for efficiently encoding information required for the computation of missing transverse momentum given arbitrary selection criteria for the constituent reconstructed objects. Pileup suppression using information from both the calorimeter and the inner detector is an integral component of the reconstruction procedure. Energy calibration and systematic variations are naturally supported. Following this strategy, the ATLAS Collaboration has been able to optimise the use of missing transverse momentum in diverse analyses throughout Runs 2 and 3 of the Large Hadron Collider and for future analyses.
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@article{arxiv.2308.15290,
title = {A flexible and efficient approach for missing transverse momentum reconstruction},
author = {William Balunas and Donatella Cavalli and Teng Jian Khoo and Matthew Klein and Peter Loch and Federica Piazza and Caterina Pizio and Silvia Resconi and Douglas Schaefer and Russell Smith and Sarah Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15290},
year = {2023}
}
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17 pages, 2 figures