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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2016
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Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdallah, J.
Abdinov, O.
Aben, R.
Abolins, M.
Abouzeid, O.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abreu, R.
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Physical Review D, 2016; 93(1):012002-1-012002-23
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G. Aad ... P. Jackson ... L. Lee ... A. Petridis ... N.Soni ... M.J. White ... [et al.] (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 ¯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⁻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 θ₁ and θ₂ between the charged leptons and the direction of motion of the parent quarks in the t¯t rest frame are sensitive to the spin information, and the distribution of cosθ₁⋅cosθ₂ is sensitive to the spin correlation between the t and ¯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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© 2016 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.