Measurement of the correlation between the polar angles of leptons from top quark decays in the helicity basis at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
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January 2016
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Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, et al. “Measurement of the Correlation Between the Polar Angles of Leptons from Top Quark Decays in the Helicity Basis at √s = 7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector.” Phys. Rev. D 93, no. 1 (January 13, 2016). © 2016 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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A measurement of the correlations between the polar angles of leptons from the decay of pair-produced t and [bar over t] quarks in the helicity basis is reported, using proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb[superscript −1] at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV collected during 2011. Candidate events are selected in the dilepton topology with large missing transverse momentum and at least two jets. The angles θ[subscript 1] and θ[subscript 2] between the charged leptons and the direction of motion of the parent quarks in the t[bar over t] rest frame are sensitive to the spin information, and the distribution of cosθ[subscript 1]⋅cosθ[subscript 2] is sensitive to the spin correlation between the t and [bar over t] quarks. The distribution is unfolded to parton level and compared to the next-to-leading order prediction. A good agreement is observed.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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