A faster, high precision algorithm for calculating symmetric and asymmetric $M_{T2}$

Abstract

A new algorithm for calculating the stransverse mass, $M_{T2}$, in either symmetric or asymmetric situations has been developed which exhibits good stability, high precision and quadratic convergence for the majority of the $M_{T2}$ parameter space, leading to up to a factor of ten increase in speed compared to other $M_{T2}$ calculators of comparable precision. This document describes and validates the methodology used by the algorithm, and provides comparisons both in terms of accuracy and speed with other existing implementations.