The tt̅ spin correlation at production is a fundamental prediction of QCD and a potentially incisive test of new physics coupled to top quarks. We measure the tt̅ spin state in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV using 1001 candidate events in the lepton plus jets decay channel reconstructed in the CDF II detector. In the helicity basis, for a top-quark mass of 172.5  GeV/c2, we find a spin correlation coefficient κ=0.60±0.50  (stat)±0.16  (syst), consistent with the QCD prediction, κ≈0.40.

T. AALTONEN, B. ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ, S. AMERIO, D. AMIDEI, A. ANASTASSOV, A. ANNOVI, et al. (2011). Measurement of tt̅ spi+n correlation in pp̅ collisions using the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY, 83, 031104-1-031104-7 [10.1103/PhysRevD.83.031104].

Measurement of tt̅ spi+n correlation in pp̅ collisions using the CDF II detector at the Tevatron

BRIGLIADORI, LUCA;CASTRO, ANDREA;DENINNO, MARIA MADDALENA;MAZZANTI, PAOLO;MOGGI, NICCOLO';MUSSINI, MANUEL;RIMONDI, FRANCO;ZUCCHELLI, STEFANO
2011

Abstract

The tt̅ spin correlation at production is a fundamental prediction of QCD and a potentially incisive test of new physics coupled to top quarks. We measure the tt̅ spin state in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV using 1001 candidate events in the lepton plus jets decay channel reconstructed in the CDF II detector. In the helicity basis, for a top-quark mass of 172.5  GeV/c2, we find a spin correlation coefficient κ=0.60±0.50  (stat)±0.16  (syst), consistent with the QCD prediction, κ≈0.40.
2011
T. AALTONEN, B. ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ, S. AMERIO, D. AMIDEI, A. ANASTASSOV, A. ANNOVI, et al. (2011). Measurement of tt̅ spi+n correlation in pp̅ collisions using the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY, 83, 031104-1-031104-7 [10.1103/PhysRevD.83.031104].
T. AALTONEN; B. ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ; S. AMERIO; D. AMIDEI; A. ANASTASSOV; A. ANNOVI; J. ANTOS; G. APOLLINARI; J. APPEL; T. ARISAWA; A. ARTIKOV; J. ASAADI...espandi
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