Speaker
John Gunion
(University of California at Davis)
Description
We demonstrate that sparticle masses in a susy decay chain can be determined to
within about 1 GeV using full kinematic information about the production events. A
typical decay chain that we consider is gluino pair production followed by both
gluinos decaying to the 2nd lightest neutralino, each of which decays to a slepton
and a lepton, followed by each of the sleptons decaying to a lepton and the lightest
neutralino (LSP). In short, we are able to determine the absolute mass scale with
accuracy similar to that known to be achievable for mass differences in such a decay
chain. A description of the technique will be given and several examples provided.
The quoted precision is that obtained after including detector resolution and
backgrounds.
Author
John Gunion
(University of California at Davis)
