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Measurement of tt̅ spin correlation in pp̅ collisions using the CDF II detector at the Tevatron

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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Makhoul, Khaldoun; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Bauer, Gerry P
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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  [square root of 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 GeV/c superscript 2], we find a spin correlation coefficient κ=0.60±0.50  (stat)±0.16  (syst), consistent with the QCD prediction, κ≈0.40.
Date issued
2011-02
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63140
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Physical review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Aaltonen, T. et al. “Measurement of tt[over ¯] spin correlation in pp[over ¯] collisions using the CDF II detector at the Tevatron.” Physical Review D 83.3 (2011) : n. pag. © 2011 American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1550-2368

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