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Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-30 v1

Abstract

Missing neutrinos need not destroy collider spin tomography. We formulate the visible measurement under kinematic ambiguities arising from invisible particles as a coarse-grained positive-operator-valued measure on the production spin density matrix. We show that information loss is governed by the null space of the resulting visible-data map, not by the number of kinematic solutions. In e+eτ+τπ+π+ννˉe^+e^-\to\tau^+\tau^-\to\pi^+\pi^-+\nu\bar\nu, the twofold ambiguity leaves only the antisymmetric spin-correlation combination CnrCrnC_{nr}-C_{rn} unidentifiable, while the differential production rate and the remaining fourteen spin coefficients are identifiable. For practical reconstruction under kinematic ambiguities, we develop a self-consistent fixed-point unfolding method using only visible data, without assuming a theoretical production template. Closure tests in Standard Model and anomalous tau-dipole benchmarks show that the method reproduces the truth-level differential production rate and all identifiable spin coefficients, whereas the usual flat average over kinematic folds gives significantly biased reconstructions. When a nontrivial null space is present, the reconstructed identifiable subspace together with positivity yields controlled ranges for concurrence and the CHSH parameter.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.28346,
  title  = {Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos},
  author = {Tengyu Ai and Qi Bi and Yuxin He and Zekun Li and Jia Liu and Xiao-Ping Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.28346},
  year   = {2026}
}

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45 pages, 1 table, 10 figures