Variable/Method
| Reference(s)/Code
| Realm of Applicability
| Precision
| Good for
| Fails for
| Unknown/Future directions
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MT
| (ancient)
| one missing particle
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Meff
|
| always
|
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| does not identify process in any way
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HT
|
| always
|
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| does not identify process in any way
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Edges
| (lots)
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| Intermediate 3-body decays? Combinatoric (other side) jets not considered. Calorimeter nonlinearity?
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MT2
| hep-ph/9906349
|
MT2 kink ("stransverse" mass)
| arXiv:0709.0288
| 4-body final state, 2 missing
|
| large mass differences and large pT
| small mass differences or no pT
|
MTn
|
| 4-body final state, n missing
|
MTgen
| arXiv:0708.1028
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M2C
| arXiv:0712.0943
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M3C
| arXiv:0811.2138
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| arXiv:0812.1042
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Exactly-constrained Polynomials
| arXiv:0707.0030
| 4 on-shell intermediate resonances, 2 missing
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| Apply to squark-neutralino2-slepton-neutralino1 cascade where other side is squark-neutralino1.
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Multi-event Polynomial intersection
| arXiv:0802.4290
| 5 or more on-shell intermediate resonances, 2 missing
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| Statistics of histograms created with n-event subsets; If mass differences are fixed and the masses are increased, what happens? (Sabine Kraml); Develop methods for asymmetric chains and < 6 intermediate resonances.
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