assuming a jet is produced in the detector at a hadron collider. Some of the jet particles are uncharged and will only interact with the hadronic calorimeter and therefore there is no information about their momentum from their trajectory in a magnetic field. The calorimeter measures the jet's kinetic energy by absorbing it, and its direction of flight can be inferred from the azimuthal and polar angle/pseudorapidity. But how do I get the jet's transverse momentum from it? I understand that I can get the transverse energy by looking at the projection of the energy onto the transverse plane, but to get the transverse momentum I still need information about the particles mass, which I don't have, do I?
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Just found in Tao Han's "Collider Phenomenology", that many objects such as photons and light-quark and gluon jets are assumed to be massless, and therefore the transverse energy is equal to the transverse momentum.