SciPost Physics (Jul 2024)

Returning CP-observables to the frames they belong

  • Jona Ackerschott, Rahool Kumar Barman, Dorival Gonçalves, Theo Heimel, Tilman Plehn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.1.001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 1
p. 001

Abstract

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Optimal kinematic observables are often defined in specific frames and then approximated at the reconstruction level. We show how multi-dimensional unfolding methods allow us to reconstruct these observables in their proper rest frame and in a probabilistically faithful way. We illustrate our approach with a measurement of a CP-phase in the top Yukawa coupling. Our method makes use of key advantages of generative unfolding, but as a constructed observable it fits into standard LHC analysis frameworks.