I consider the two-body decay of a particle at a hadron collider into a visible and an invisible particle, generalizing W-en, where the masses of the decaying particle and the invisible decay particle are, a priori, unknown. I prove that the transverse mass, when maximized over possible kinematic configurations, can be used to determine both of the unknown masses. I argue that the proof can be generalized to cover cases such as decays of pair-produced superpartners to the lightest, stable superpartner at the Large Hadron Collider.
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%A Gripaios, Ben
%D 2008
%I Institute of Physics Publishing
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%K dilepton mt2 physics
%N 02
%P 053
%R 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/053
%T Transverse observables and mass determination at hadron colliders
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/053
%V 2008
%X I consider the two-body decay of a particle at a hadron collider into a visible and an invisible particle, generalizing W-en, where the masses of the decaying particle and the invisible decay particle are, a priori, unknown. I prove that the transverse mass, when maximized over possible kinematic configurations, can be used to determine both of the unknown masses. I argue that the proof can be generalized to cover cases such as decays of pair-produced superpartners to the lightest, stable superpartner at the Large Hadron Collider.
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title = {Transverse observables and mass determination at hadron colliders},
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