Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using the CMS detector

Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the $$M_{\mathrm {T2}}$$ variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$

“…The p miss T is further adjusted to reflect the jet energy corrections [100,101]. Events with possible contributions from beam halo processes or anomalous noise in the calorimeter are rejected using dedicated filters [103,104]. For events with at least two jets, we start with the pair having the largest dijet invariant mass and iteratively cluster all selected jets using an algorithm that minimizes the Lund distance measure [105,106] until two stable pseudo-jets are obtained.…”

Search for lepton flavour violating decays of a neutral heavy Higgs boson to μτ and eτ in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

“…All the reconstructed particles in the event are used to estimate the missing transverse momentum, p miss T , which is defined as the projection onto the plane perpendicular to the beam axis of the negative vector sum of the momenta of all reconstructed PF candidates in an event [77]. The effect of the jet energy corrections described earlier in this section is then propagated to this p miss T .…”

“…Dedicated performance studies on data validate the reconstruction and identification techniques described in this section. When necessary, corrections have been applied to the simulated samples to ensure they correctly describe the behaviour of the data [68,69,71,73,76,77].…”

“…The uncertainty in muon energy scale and resolution is also treated in the same manner. Scale uncertainties on the energy from jets with p T below 15 GeV and PF candidates not clustered inside jets (unclustered energy scale uncertainty) are also considered [77]. They are estimated independently for four particle categories: charged particles, photons, neutral hadrons, and very forward particles which are not contained in jets.…”

Search for new neutral Higgs bosons through the $$ \mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{ZA}\to {\ell}^{+}{\ell}^{-}\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $$ process in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

“…Jets are required to have p T > 20 GeV, |η| < 2.4, and be JHEP03 (2020)055separated from identified leptons by a distance ∆R > 0.3. The missing transverse momentum vector, defined as the projection onto the transverse plane relative to the beam axis, of the negative vector sum of the momenta of all PF candidates, is referred to as p miss T [46,47]. Its magnitude is denoted by p miss T .…”