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Measurement of spin correlation in tt̄ production using dilepton final states

  • V. M. Abazov
  • , B. Abbott
  • , B. S. Acharya
  • , M. Adams
  • , T. Adams
  • , G. D. Alexeev
  • , G. Alkhazov
  • , A. Alton
  • , G. Alverson
  • , G. A. Alves
  • , L. S. Ancu
  • , M. Aoki
  • , M. Arov
  • , A. Askew
  • , B. Åsman
  • , O. Atramentov
  • , C. Avila
  • , J. BackusMayes
  • , F. Badaud
  • , L. Bagby
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Abstract

We measure the correlation between the spin of the top quark and the spin of the anti-top quark in tt̄→W+bW-b̄→ℓ+νbℓ-ν̄b̄ final states produced in pp̄ collisions at a center of mass energy s=1.96 TeV, where ℓ is an electron or muon. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb-1 and were collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The correlation is extracted from the angles of the two leptons in the t and tcirc; rest frames, yielding a correlation strength C=0.10-0.45 +0.45, in agreement with the NLO QCD prediction within two standard deviations, but also in agreement with the no correlation hypothesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16-23
Number of pages8
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume702
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 3 2011

Keywords

  • QCD
  • Spin
  • Top quark

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