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A simple method to determine charge-dependent curvature biases in track reconstruction in hadron collider experiments

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2021-03-31 v3

Abstract

A new data-driven method, using Zμ+μZ \rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^- decays, is proposed to correct for charge-dependent curvature biases in spectrometer experiments at hadron colliders. The method is studied assuming a detector with a "forward-spectrometer" geometry similar to that of the LHCb experiment, and is shown to reliably control several simplified detector mis-alignment configurations. The applicability of the method for use in measurements of precision electroweak observables is evaluated.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05675,
  title  = {A simple method to determine charge-dependent curvature biases in track reconstruction in hadron collider experiments},
  author = {William Barter and Martina Pili and Mika Vesterinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05675},
  year   = {2021}
}

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16 pages, 10 figures