A Storm in a "T" Cup

TL;DR

This paper revisits the process of transversification and agglomeration of particle momenta in hadron collider analyses, revealing that many mass-measurement variables are interconnected and can be viewed as specialized mass bounds.

Contribution

It demonstrates that various existing mass-measurement variables are fundamentally related and can be unified under a common framework.

Findings

Many mass-measurement variables are closely related.

Existing variables can be viewed as specialized mass bounds.

Unified perspective simplifies analysis at hadron colliders.

Abstract

We revisit the process of transversification and agglomeration of particle momenta that are often performed in analyses at hadron colliders, and show that many of the existing mass-measurement variables proposed for hadron colliders are far more closely related to each other than is widely appreciated, and indeed can all be viewed as a common mass bound specialized for a variety of purposes.