# Presentation: 127581

## The First Inverse Femtobarn at the LHC

**ANL/Chicago Workshop**
**On Collider Physics**
**Dan Green**
**Fermilab**
**May 8-12, 2006**

## Outline

**Pre-operations – synchronization, alignment and calibration**
**First Five Orders in Cross Section: 10/mb to 1/nb**
**Minbias**
**Jets, dijet balance**
**Direct photons**
**Launch Dijet search**
**Next Six Orders in Cross Section: 10/nb to 1/fb**
**b pairs and tagging**
****** ****calibration**
**W calibration**
**Υ**** ****calibration**
**Z calibration**
**Z+J balance, diphotons, top pairs (Jets, leptons and MET)**
**Jest Energy Scale with W -> J + J.**
**Launch dilepton (and leton+MET), diphoton and J(s)+lepton(s)+MET.**

## Pre-Operations – in SX5/UX5

**Set timing to 1 nsec using lasers, pulsers – all subsystems – e.g. HCAL. Synchronization using abort gaps in the fill pattern.**
**Set ADC counts to Et conversion to 5% using radioactive sources, muons, and test beam transfer of calibrations – e.g. ECAL and HCAL.**
**Set alignment of muon chambers using cosmic ray muons and optical alignment system MB and ME. Track motion with field on (first test in SX5 in cosmic challenge).**
**Set alignment of tracker (pixels + strips) using muons, optical alignment and survey. Check with muons and laser “tracks”. **

## HCAL – 1 nsec Phase

**Time each channel with laser + variable delay. Check that pulse shape is consistent. Can easily see 1 nsec variations with sufficient photo-statistics.**

## Timing is the First Task

**Timing is the First Task**

## Beam Structure at LHC

**Collect minbias energy deposits as a function of bunch crossing for a given detector (e.g. HCAL). The overall timing is set by finding the abort gap.**

**Over 16,000 entries,**
**individual tile **
**wire source**
**RMS= 11% - agrees with QC at factory. Allows HCAL to transfer calibration from a few towers in a test beam to all tiles in the calorimeter.**

**HCAL - Sources**

## HCAL-Muons and e vs Sources

**3%**

**WS****/********-**

**WS****/********-**

**WS****/********-**

**a)  each tower**

**b)**

****** ****tower number**

**c)**

**a,b)  Comparison with muon beam.**
**c)  Calibration of wire source with**
**     ****100GeV electron beam.**
**         ********  ****6.98 MeV equivalent**
**              ****as of 2005-01-31**

**GeV**

**HCAL-Muons and e vs Sources**

**6% - to be improved**

## ECAL – Laser vs Test Beam

**Laser light yield at manufacture correlates with test beam electrons to ~ 4%.**

## ECAL – Cosmics vs Test Beam

**Use cosmic muons and compare to electron beam – good to ~ 4%. Better calibration must rely on in situ electrons from vector boson resonances, e.g. Z.**

## Tracker -Misalignments and PT Resolution

- Only shifts greater than 10 m degrade Pt resolution
-  for a 100 GeV muon.

## Tracker Alignment

**Bend angle depends on magnetic field length, R, and strength B. CMS sets a goal of 10% at 1 TeV or a 2 TeV object decaying into di-muons. Resolution of pixels is ~ 10 um, strips ~ **

## Laser Alignment System

**Laser Alignment System**

- BS

- Laser profile in all 9 disks (laser at “full” gain to illuminate all disks)

- NB:diffraction patterns from strips

- Laser Alignment System proven

## TEC Verification with Cosmics

- Scintillator panels above and below for triggering

- Tracker Endcap (TEC)

- Software reconstruction of a “Laser track”

## Tracker - Misalignments

**An in situ alignment with high Pt tracks (due to multiple scattering) is needed to achieve an alignment which does not compromise reconstruction efficiency or momentum resolution. Initial alignment by survey, coordinate measuring machine or laser is only good to **

## Tracker Material

**There is enough material in the tracker to compromise the pion reconstruction efficiency.**

## Muon Alignment – Cosmic rays

**        ****L**

**   ****B**

**The muon momentum resolution is dominated by multiple scattering. Therefore, dP/P ~ constant. This means that the alignment requirements for the Muon systems are somewhat relaxed. (not true in ATLAS).**

## Muon Alignment

**Note 1000 um displacements do not do great damage to the stand alone muon momentum measurement.**

## Tracker – Muon Alignment

**Note muon dP/P ~ const ~ 10% and tracker dP/P ~ 1/P. Note also tracker is ~ 10x more accurate ******** Muon for ID and Trigger, Tracker for kinematics.**

## LHC Run Plan

**The 2007 run at 0.9 TeV will be for a short period and log only < 10/pb. The 2008 run will be at 14 TeV and log ~ “few” /fb.**

## From 1023 to 1027 /(cm2sec)

| L for 1 month run (106 sec) | Integrated L | Trigger | Process | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1023 | 100 mb-1 | None
I~ 50 mb | Inelastic
non-diff | Input to tweak Pythia |
| 1024 | 1 b-1 | Setup Jet | Inelastic
non-diff | Calib in azimuth |
| 1025 | 10 b-1 | Jet
(gg) ~ 90 b
(ggg) ~ 6 b | g+g -> g+g
g+g -> g+g+g | Establish JJ cross section |
| 1026 | 100 b-1 | Jet | g+g -> g+g
g+g -> g+g+g | Dijet balance for polar angle – Establish MET |
| 1027 | 1 nb-1 | Jet
Setup Photon
(q) ~ 20 nb | g+g -> g+g
g+g -> g+g+g
q+g -> q+  | Dijet masses > 2 TeV, start discovery search.
J+ calib |

## Minbias Rapidity Density 

**Using data from 0.2 to 1.8 TeV to extrapolate the plateau rapidity density****. ****For all pions expect**
**Note – 2x extrapolation from 0.9 TeV**

## Minbias – Pt Data

**Extrapolations of the Pt distribution and average values.**
**Expect <Pt> ~ 0.65**

**Note the factor ~ 100 drop in single tracks (tracker alignment) from 14 ->0.9 TeV for Pt = 6 GeV**

## Rapidity Density at LHC

**Minbias predictions from Pythia – Tune A agree with the simple extrapolations. Density rise is faster than lns. –R. Field**

## Pt in Minbias - LHC

**The Pythia-Tune A predictions agree well with the simple extrapolation for minbias data. Important to measure and tune Pythia to represent well the minbias background for pileup and to set trigger strategies, e.g. isolation. Can only be done in 2008.**

## Minbias Calibration – Azimuthal Balance, HCAL and ECAL

**Error on Mean E****T**
**Minbias Events and HCAL Towers**

## Minbias Calibration -II

**Calibrate to 2%**
**Minbias Events**
**ECAL has 25 fold smaller tower area and sees only  the neutral pions. Noise dominates, 0.15/0.6**

## Monte Carlo Study - ECAL

**Ultimately limited because the detector is not azimuthally symmetric. ECAL dependence on y is due to material in the EB/EE boundary and different noise in the ECAL endcap. Estimated 1% calibration takes 3.6 million minbias events, but there are tower sharing losses, etc.**

## Minbias Pions and ECAL

**Use charged pions at moderate Pt to start tracker alignment in 2007 and start in situ HCAL. Neutral pions can be used for ECAL.**

## Jets and Di-jets

**In the minbias sample look for events (minijets) passing jet algorithms. Get an estimate of the L1 and high level trigger and reconstruction efficiencies.**
**As L rises, impose a Jet Trigger. Check the cross section vs Pt and Mass. **
**Check the angular distribution.**
**Establish the MET distribution. Check that tails are consistent with ISR, FSR. **
**Use di-jets, when understood, to calibrate the calorimetry using jet balance.**
**Having established di-jets, launch a Jet – Jet mass search (wait until 2008 run...).**

## 2007 Run at 0.9 TeV

**Cut jet Pt > 20 GeV and |y| < 5. Cross section is a factor ~ 200 less at 0.9 TeV w.r.t. 14 TeV (280 ub vs. 1.3 ub). HF will not be strongly illuminated by jets because plateau is too short. Concentrate on Barrel and Endcap regions.**

## Jet Transverse Momentum

**The 0.9 TeV pilot run has a severely limited jet Pt range compared to 14 TeV C.M. energy.  The <x> range at 0.9 TeV is, for (20,500) GeV, (0.044,1), while at 14 TeV the <x> range is (0.0029,0.071). Use scaling arguments to connect the 2 C.M. energies? The 2007 data will be limit to jets < 100 GeV**

## Resolution and Cross Section

**To understand the cross section, the resolution for steeply falling spectra must be well understood.**

**Fold Gaussian into exponential. Result is again Gaussian (far from edges) but with increased normalization.**

**P****T**

## Jets and Dijets

**For jets, require Pt > 30 GeV ( reasonable reconstruction efficiency) and |y|<5 (HB + HE + HF).**
**The cross section in COMPHEP is ~ 90 ub. If no trigger in 10 ub****-1 ****(0.5 M minbias) have 900 Jets with no trig efficiency. Establish trig and reco efficiency (2J/1J). **
**Setup single jet trigger at 1 ub****-1**** and start to trigger at 10 ub****-1****.  **
**900 dijets at 10 ub****-1****, 90,000 at 1 nb****-1****. Do dijet balance for ******** “towers” which are already azimuthally equalized (connect the “rings”).**
**For 0.9 TeV run in 2007, scale needed luminosity by ~ 100.**

## Jet Energy

**Assuming a jet is an ensemble of particles moving ~ in the same direction, then the Jet Et is a local scalar variable as is the dijet mass.**
**If dominated by stochastic coefficient, then jet energy resolution is the same as the single particle resolution.**

## Establish the Jet Cross Section

** ****Clearly see enormous mass range increase due to PDF evaluated at much lower <x>. Expect at fixed mass the ratio is ~ [xg(x)]****2 ****at x ~ M/********s. Will very quickly get beyond the Tevatron kinematic limit during the 2008 run at 14 TeV.**

## Angular Distribution

**Establish angular distribution – t channel, flat ********. Look at 2J/1J to extract trigger and reconstruction efficiencies. Check Pt spectrum against Monte Carlo for overall normalization. Look at J-J Et balance to calibrate towers in ******** (towers in azimuth done with minbias ?). Look at tails of                                       distribution for missing Et. Does it point in ******** to J for dijet events?                                         **

## Calibration – Di-Jet Balance

**Suppose a tower is calibrated. To then calibrate a second tower with the opposite azimuth and any polar angle, use jet balancing.**

**Suppose a calibration, G, is needed to 2%. The  energy is needed to 2% or 2500 GeV is needed, which could be 50 jets with 50 GeV in that tower. The 90 ub is 900 nb into a given tower or a 50 /ub exposure. Also jet spans several towers. Core has dR~0.2 or ~ 16 towers.**

**With photons the cross section is lower but the photon is measured more accurately and the signal is not shared over as many towers as a jet.**

## Di-Jet Balance Study

**Use di-jets to compare the calibration of jet “rings” at different ******** values.**

## FSR – 2 Jets and 3 Jets

**The cross section for 2 jets with PT > 30 GeV is only ~  twice that for 2 jets with PT>30GeV and a third with PT>5 GeV. There is s channel FSR, t channel FSR and ISR. Argues for good jet finding efficiency to the lowest Et so as to be able to veto on FSR.**

## Missing Ex in g+g+g, MET

**Large missing energy due to bad measures of jet energies cannot be removed in a multi-jet topology. Plot for 10,000 3J events, each J with Pt > 30 GeV.**

**ISR, FSR**

## FSR and Jet Balance

**In g+g+g events the 2 hardest jets will not balance in Pt. They will also not be back to back in azimuth. Note that those which are ~ back-to-back have emitted a fairly soft third gluon. Cut on d******** and veto any observable hard third jet to get a “di-jet” sample for calibration purposes. Plots are for all jets > 30 GeV (L) and for 2 leading jets > 30 GeV and third > 5 GeV ®.**

## Understanding MET

**The cross section with all 3 gluons having Pt> 30 GeV and |y|<5 is ~ 6 ub, which is ~ 1/15 the g+g cross section. Observing 3J events is a useful check of the reconstruction efficiency, if the dynamics is assumed to be understood.**
**MET is due to energy mismeasures. Assume jet error is                              **
**No jet angular error. For g+g cut on ******** of MET w.r.t. J. For g+g+g this does not work. Gaussian errors? If so then b pairs and t pairs dominate MET at large MET values.**

**For b+B there are real v from b->c+l+v. Important for MET > 100 GeV**

## FSR and Jet Balance

**Plots for 3 jet events, with 1 soft jet. Note the E balance broadening. Note also the lack of back to back leading jets. Three jet events with ~ back to back leading jets are due to emission of soft third jets. The QCD radiation places a limit on jet balancing.**

## Dijet Mass Search, g + g

**If low Pt is understood, explore dijet mass. At 1 nb****-1**** have ~ 40 events at 2 TeV mass. (note log/log  power law Physics and PDF)**
**Now in new territory early in the 2008 run – look at 2 TeV and above as luminosity increases. Mass “reach” is roughly 1 TeV gain for each 10x in integrated L.**

**Significance Estimates ****for 100/pb**

**For 100 /pb the 95% CL for contact interactions is 6.4 TeV. Published D0 limit at 95% CL is 2.7 TeV.**
**2007 LHC run is ~ 100/pb**
**2008 LHC run is ~ few /fb**

## Calibration Processes – Jet/Photon Balance

**g+q -> q + ******** events with the Pt of the q and photon > 30 GeV and the photon with |y| < 2.5 (in ECAL) has a cross section of  ~ 20 nb. At 1 nb****-1**** can plan to find a few events using photon isolation cuts. For 1 pb****-1**** there will be 20,000 J + ******** events. Assuming the azimuthal calibration is done using minbias and/or dijet balance, there are then 200 jets/HCAL y “tower” (summed over azimuth). At higher L the q + Z and diphoton events can be used to cross check the initial HCAL and ECAL calibrations.**

## Photon + J - Statistics

**Use e/photon trigger. Plot is for 10 /fb.**
**Jet spreads over ~ 16 HCAL towers. **

## Photon + J - Systematics

**Method is systematics limited at the few % level. At low Pt there are severe QCD backgrounds. FSR also limits the accuracy.**

## From 1028 to 1033 /(cm2sec)

| L for 1 month run | Integrated L | Trigger | Process | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1028 | 10nb-1 | bB ~ 600 nb. Setup – run single electron, muon, photon | g+g -> b+B | 900,000 JJ, 6000 bB,
1200 1, 60 2
Establish  jet tag
80 2e and 2 events from  |
| 1029 | 100 nb-1 | Setup dimuon, dielectron
v ~ 10 nb | 
q+Q->W->+v
(D-Y) | 
1000   from W-> + v
Lumi – standard candle (look at high Mt tail)
100 2e and 2 events from Υ |
| 1030 | 1 pb-1 | Run dilepton trigger
 ~ 1.5 nb
tT ~ 630 pb | q+Q->Z->+
(D-Y)
g+g->t+T | 1500 dimuons from Z-mass scale, resolution
Lumi- standard candle, high M
600 t + T produced |
| 1031 | 10 pb-1

End of ’07
Pilot Run | Setup, J*MET
q ~ 40 pb
 ~ 24 pb | 
g+q->Z+q->++q
q+Q->+- (tree) | 400 Z + J events with Z->dimuons –  Z+J balance, calib
Estimate J + MET ( q + v )
240 diphoton events with M > 60 GeV
6000 t + T
150 Z->tau pairs into dileptons > 8 GeV * MET > 15 GeV |
| 1032 | 100 pb-1 | qQZ ~ 170 pb
qgZg ~ 32 pb

tT ~ 630 pb | g+g->q+Q+Z
g+q->q+g+Z+g | 3000 J+J+Z->vv events, Pt>30
500 J+J+Z->+ events, Pt>30
600 J+J+J+Z->vv events
10000 J+J+J+J++v events |
| 1033 | 1 fb-1 (1% of  design L for 1 yr) End of ’08 Physics Run |  |  | M of dijet in 100000 top events, W->  +v – set Jet energy scale with W mass. Dimuon mass > 1 TeV, start discovery search, diphoton search, SUSY search |

## Single Muon Spectrum

**With no cuts the b+B  cross section is ~ 300 ub. Requiring Pt > 30 for both jets and |y| < 5, ******** ~ 0.6 ub. The BR for b -> c + u + v is ~ 10%, so that there are ~ 120 nb for a single muon,  ~ 6 nb for a dimuon topology.  Look for muons in jets to establish a trigger and reco efficiency (2u/1u). Then set up a muon trigger and search for 2 muons in the b+B events (20 x reduction). Look for missing Et – shape and magnitude. Use soft muon tagged jets to establish b tag efficiency? (1 tag/2 tags) Start in situ muon alignment using 1u trigger. Similarly for single e trigger with isolation.**

**Low Pt dominated by b pairs. W dominates at Jacobean peak. At high Pt top pairs dominate.**

## “Cascade” Decays

**Decay to n massless particles ->**
**Pt ~ PT/n with vertex factors for gluon “splitting” into b quarks which then decay into leptons. Gives a rough estimate, but recall spillover to higher PT with smearing of spectra. At a fixed Pt of ~ 40 GeV, there are ~ 10,000 more jets than muons.**

## B Tags with Secondary Vertex

**Note that                                                         Earliest attempt to establish b tags comes with b jet events. **

## Muons and Neutrinos in b Pairs

**Run at 0.9 TeV will not well populate the ME. Look at approximation of massless jet decaying collinearly to massless final state particles. Compare neutrino z momentum to estimate using MET and the Jet axis. Works well above lepton momentum of ~ 50 GeV (jet above 150 GeV).**

## Vector Boson Di-Lepton Calib

| Type | M(Gev) | (GeV) | B(%) | nb |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 3.1 | 0.000091 | 5.9 | 2.1 |
|  | 9.46 | 0.000053 | 2.5 | 0.018 |
| Z | 91.2 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 1.3 |

## Charmonium Calibration

**Cross section * BR in |y|<1.5 is ~ 8 nb. Get ~ 80 dielectron and dimuon events which are prompt in 10 /nb. Confirm di-lepton mass scale and mass resolution. Triggers will need to operate at reduced threshold and for muons, use only first layer of muon chambers. Sort on primary and secondary to see if B tags are functioning properly? B ->******

## Dilepton Resonances - Thresholds

**If thresholds of 3 to 4 GeV can be used in triggers, then high cross section resonances can be used to establish Tracker and Muon alignment and check the mass scale and resolution. **

## Rapidity of Leptons From  and 

**Lepton signals for tracker and Muon systems will be “barrel poor” until the heavier bosons, W and Z become  available as the luminosity increases.**

## Upsilon Calibration

**Cross section * BR about 1 nb. Resolve the spectral peaks? Mass scale correct?**

## Standard W Candle?

**Use W -> u + v as a “standard candle” to set the LHC luminosity? Expect ~ 2% accuracy on the predicted cross section. Cross section for W->u+v with |y|<2.5 * Pt > 15 GeV is ~ 10 nb.  In isolated muon triggers look for MET and for Jacobean peak indicating cleanly identified W D-Y production. Once established, look at transverse mass tail in isolated leptons. In new territory above Run II mass reach – start a discovery search.**

## Run I, II W Transverse Mass

**Reach at high Mt is ~ 400 GeV. Will have greatly enhanced mass reach at the LHC.**

## Missing ET

**Since the pion density is ~ 9 and the mean transverse energy is ~ 0.6 GeV, there is 54 GeV of E****T**** per minbias event or ~ 1 TeV per bunch crossing at design luminosity.**
**Missing transverse energy, MET, is a global vector (2-d) variable.**
** ****If the energy measurement is dominated by the stochastic term**
**Then the magnitude of MET is the length of MET in the transverse plane**
**If stochastic coefficient is 100%, then dMET~ 30 GeV for 1 crossing at design L at the LHC.**

## Solving W ->  + 

**The transverse neutrino momentum comes from MET. The z component of neutrino momentum is unmeasured. Use W mass constraint to solve for it. Quadratic -> 2 solutions.**

## Standard Z Candle?

**Use Z->u+u as second “standard candle” to determine the LHC luminosity. Expect ~ 2% accuracy in cross section prediction. Find cross section for Z  u+u decay with |y|<2.5 * Pt > 15 GeV is ~ 600 pb. Note slow rise from Run II cross section values. **

## Lepton Momentum Scale

## Z->e+e in Situ ECAL Calibration

**Accurate ECAL calibration depends on using Z as a narrow di-electron resonance.**

## Dimuon Spectrum and Search

**Establish Z production in isolated dimuons and dielectrons. Establish cross section – understand trigger and reco efficiency. Confirm mass resolution and mass scale for leptons using the Z . Cross check luminosity determination found from W.**
**Set up search for high mass dileptons using the di-lepton data stream.**
**Get to the 1 TeV mass scale by 1 fb****-1****. Start discovery search with ~ 10 events.**

**At low mass, b pairs dominate. Peak for Z is above background. Top pairs dominate at high mass.**

## CDF -High Mass Dileptons, F/B

**Look at high mass isolated dimuons.  Establish the F/B asymmetry above the Z. Limit of ~ 500 GeV in tail. No evidence of F/B asymmetry which deviates from SM.  If Z’ , then A****FB**** -> 0.**

## Establish tau in Z Decays

**Z -> ********  + ******** decays as with muon and electron pairs.**

******                 ****W**

****
**l**
****

**Decays appear in dilepton trigger stream. BR is 35% for tau into muon or electron.**

## Z Decay to Tau Pairs - Collinear

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**Assume collinear neutrinos. Then have 2 Eqs in 2 unknowns. Must cut on determinant**
**|det|>0.005 is ~ 70% efficient after cuts on Pt of the leptons and MET.**

## Tau Triggering

**Require a “narrow” jet in the calorimetry. Require confirmation from the tracking, and isolation around the narrow jet.**

## Tau Signal - II

**Tau mass is 1.76 GeV, Z is 91 GeV. Thus, all tau decay products are ~ collinear with the tau direction.**
**Cut with Pt of both leptons > 8 GeV and MET > 15 GeV**
**Trigger efficiency is ~ 5%. Thus fewer tau pairs than direct dilepton pairs. **

**Plot of  mass of Z using tau energy inferred fron lepton energy and the projection of MET along the lepton ~ tau direction. Mean dilepton mass = 46 GeV. Mean MET (cut > 15 GeV) is 21 GeV. Mean tau pair mass is 92 GeV.**

## Di-lepton Search

**Having established clean electron, muon and tau “objects” a looks at di-lepton masses can be taken with some confidence.**

## High Mass Di-Lepton Cross Sections

**PDF at higher mass than Z means higher x, **
**and perturbation theory means scale dependence. Detector effects are not dominant.**

## Top Pair Production – Run II -> LHC

**Same Feynman diagrams as b+ B. Ask top jets with Pt > 30 GeV and |y| < 5.0. The cross section is ~ 630 pb (big rise – 100 x-  from Run II – made by g at LHC not quarks as at Run II). The mass spectrum is the same in magnitude and shape as b+B at masses > 600 GeV. Events appear in di-lepton trigger stream.**

## Hadronic Top Reco - ATLAS

**B**

**S**

**Three jets with highest vector-sum P****T**** as the decay products of the top – lepton trigger. ****Two jets in hadronic top with highest momentum in reconstructed J+J+J C.M. frame. Lumi = 300 /pb. Top mass with cut on W in MJJ.**

**Hadronic Top Reco - ATLAS**

**W**

**t**

## W -> J + J Mass and Jet E Scale

**Get 1% statistics for Jet energy scale in 1 /fb. Need to understand the issues of backgrounds, pile up, etc. dM/M ~ dP/P**

## CMS – Tops Pairs

**Want to establish top pair signal in SM as soon as possible. Can be done with loose criteria or, at lower efficiency, with tighter cuts. Use W->JJ to establish absolute jet energy scale**

## LHC -  +  Search

**q + Q -> diphotons. Require Pt > 30 GeV and |y| < 2.5 to simulate ECAL acceptance. Cross section (tree diagrams only) is ~ 24 pb.  This is ~ 3 million times smaller than g+g dijets ( need rejection per jet > 2000). Need to establish the correct cross section in diphoton HLT events. Mass distribution is ~ 0.2 pb/GeV at 100 GeV mass. **
**Run II limit is ~ 300 GeV. At LHC  - Higgs search at low mass. At high mass, have ~ 100 events at 1 TeV mass in the first fb****-1****. Start diphoton  discovery search.**

## CDF - Diphotons

**Mass spectrum explored to ~ 300 GeV. Large increase in mass reach at the LHC.**

## SUSY- GMSB

**In GMSB the SUSY LSP is the graviton. The SUSY pairs cascade down to a pair of neutralinos which each decay to photon + graviton – signature is diphoton + MET**

## Di-photons at High Mass

**Gravity couples to all mass “democratically”. Therefore look at rare processes with SM weak couplings. LHC will be in new territory by 1 /fb.**

## MET from Z->v+v and Top Pairs at LHC

**J*MET: Compton scatt q+g->Z+q with q having Pt > 30 GeV and |y| < 5 and Z-> v+v. Cross section is ~ 280 pb. Use dimuon events, Z + J balance, in calibration. **
**J*J*MET: In g + g -> q + Q + Z have Z radiation (FSR) diagrams. Require quark jets to have |y|<5 and Pt>30 GeV and Z to have Pt>30 GeV. Thus, dijet + missing Et cross section for missing Et>30GeV is ~ 170 pb *BR(vv) ~ 34 pb . Use Z->u+u events to validate missing Et. Set up for SUSY search.**
**J*J*J*J*MET*: In t + T, single muon events have a cross section ~ 100 pb**

## Summary

**Pre-operations will prepare CMS for first beam.**
**The first 5 orders of magnitude in luminosity, up to 10****27****/cm****2*****sec, will allow calibration checks, jet and MET establishment, and dijet mass search.**
**The next 6 orders of magnitude, to 10****33****/cm****2*****sec, allow the setting up of lepton triggers, standard candles for cross sections (W and Z), jet mass scale (W from top) and dilepton (including lepton+MET) and diphoton mass searches beyond Tevatron limits.**
**Look in tails of l + v, l + l and ******** + ******** masses. **
**Look at Jets + MET. Estimate the irreducible Z backgrounds using dilepton Z events in the dilepton trigger stream. **