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Reconstruction of top quark pair dilepton decays in electron-positron collisions

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-03-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A new algorithm is presented to perform the full kinematic reconstruction of top quark pair events produced at future electron-positron colliders in the case of dilepton decays of the WW bosons to electrons or muons. The momentum components of the undetected neutrino and anti-neutrino in the event are reconstructed by employing several kinematic conditions comprising a non-linear system of six equations. This system is solved numerically using two independent methods and the selection of the best candidate real solution for each event is determined by a likelihood discriminant. Results are presented for several reconstructed kinematic properties of the W±W^\pm bosons, top (and anti-top) quarks using generator level information produced at leading order.

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@article{arxiv.1902.01976,
  title  = {Reconstruction of top quark pair dilepton decays in electron-positron collisions},
  author = {Helenka Casler and Matthew Manganel and Miguel C. N. Fiolhais and Andrea Ferroglia and António Onofre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01976},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures