Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos

作者：Tengyu Ai, Qi Bi, Yuxin He, Zekun Li, Jia Liu, Xiao-Ping Wang · 发表于：arXiv (Cornell University) · 年份：2026 · 研究领域：Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies、Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions、International Science and Diplomacy

Missing neutrinos need not destroy collider spin tomography. We formulate the visible measurement under kinematic ambiguities arising from invisible particles as a coarse-grained positive-operator-valued measure on the production spin density matrix. We show that information loss is governed by the null space of the resulting visible-data map, not by the number of kinematic solutions. In $e^+e^-\toτ^+τ^-\toπ^+π^-+ν\barν$, the twofold ambiguity leaves only the antisymmetric spin-correlation combination $C_{nr}-C_{rn}$ unidentifiable, while the differential production rate and the remaining fourteen spin coefficients are identifiable. For practical reconstruction under kinematic ambiguities, we develop a self-consistent fixed-point unfolding method using only visible data, without assuming a theoretical production template. Closure tests in Standard Model and anomalous tau-dipole benchmarks show that the method reproduces the truth-level differential production rate and all identifiable spin coefficients, whereas the usual flat average over kinematic folds gives significantly biased reconstructions. When a nontrivial null space is present, the reconstructed identifiable subspace together with positivity yields controlled ranges for concurrence and the CHSH parameter.