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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 DCqD\to C q, CBlnearC\to B l^{near}, BAlfarB\to A l^{far}, where A,B,C,DA,B,C,D are new particles with known masses but undetermined spins, lnearl^{near} and lfarl^{far} are opposite-sign same-flavour charged leptons and AA 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.

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@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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