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In this paper we study the gluino dijet mass edge measurement at the LHC in a realistic situation including both SUSY and combinatorial backgrounds together with effects of initial and final state radiation as well as a finite detector resolution. Three benchmark scenarios are examined in which the dominant SUSY production process and also the decay modes are different. Several new kinematical variables are proposed to minimize the impact of SUSY and combinatorial backgrounds in the measurement. By selecting events with a particular number of jets and leptons, we attempt to measure two distinct gluino dijet mass edges originating from wino \(\widetilde{g} \to jj\widetilde{W}\) and bino \(\widetilde{g} \to jj\widetilde{B}\) decay modes, separately. We determine the endpoints of distributions of proposed and existing variables and show that those two edges can be disentangled and measured within good accuracy, irrespective of the presence of ISR, FSR, and detector effects.
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Pietsch, N., Reuter, J., Sakurai, K. et al. Extracting gluino endpoints with event topology patterns. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 148 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)148
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