Addendum to "Distinguishing Spins in Decay Chains at the Large Hadron Collider"
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We extend our earlier study of spin correlations in the decay chain , , , where are new particles with known masses but undetermined spins, and are opposite-sign same-flavour charged leptons and is invisible. Instead of looking at the observable 2- and 3-particle invariant mass distributions separately, we compare the full three-dimensional phase space distributions for all possible spin assignments of the new particles, and show that this enhances their distinguishability using a quantitative measure known as the Kullback-Leibler distance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606212,
title = {Addendum to "Distinguishing Spins in Decay Chains at the Large Hadron Collider"},
author = {Christiana Athanasiou and Christopher G. Lester and Jennifer M. Smillie and Bryan R. Webber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606212},
year = {2007}
}
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