Measurements of tt spin correlations and top-quark polarization using dilepton final states in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV
Affiliations
- 1 Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 2 Institut für Hochenergiephysik der OeAW, Wien, Austria.
- 3 National Centre for Particle and High Energy Physics, Minsk, Belarus.
- 4 Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
- 5 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium.
- 6 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- 7 Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- 8 Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- 9 Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium.
- 10 Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 11 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 12 Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 13 Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 14 Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 15 University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 16 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.
- 17 State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- 18 Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
- 19 Technical University of Split, Split, Croatia.
- 20 University of Split, Split, Croatia.
- 21 Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
- 22 University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- 23 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 24 Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt.
- 25 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia.
- 26 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- 27 Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland.
- 28 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.
- 29 DSM/IRFU, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 30 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Palaiseau, France.
- 31 Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg, Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, France.
- 32 Centre de Calcul de l'Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France.
- 33 Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
- 34 Institute of High Energy Physics and Informatization, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 35 RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany.
- 36 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany.
- 37 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany.
- 38 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
- 39 University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- 40 Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 41 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece.
- 42 University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 43 University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece.
- 44 KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
- 45 Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 46 University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 47 National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 48 Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
- 49 University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
- 50 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
- 51 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
- 52 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-EHEP, Mumbai, India.
- 53 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-HECR, Mumbai, India.
- 54 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
- 55 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- 56 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy and Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 57 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 58 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy and Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 59 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 60 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy and Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 61 INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy and Università di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 62 INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 63 INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 64 INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy and Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 65 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 66 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 67 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy and Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 68 INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 69 INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy and Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 70 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 71 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy and Università della Basilicata (Potenza), Napoli, Italy.
- 72 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy and Università di Napoli 'Federico II', Napoli, Italy.
- 73 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy and Università G. Marconi (Roma), Napoli, Italy.
- 74 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 75 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy and Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 76 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy and Università di Trento (Trento), Padova, Italy.
- 77 INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy and Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 78 INFN Sezione di Perugia and Università di Perugia.
- 79 INFN Sezione di Perugia.
- 80 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 81 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 82 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy and Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 83 INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy and Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.
- 84 INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy.
- 85 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy and Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 86 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy and Università del Piemonte Orientale (Novara), Torino, Italy.
- 87 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 88 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 89 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy and Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 90 Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea.
- 91 Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
- 92 Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea.
- 93 Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
- 94 University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
- 95 Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
- 96 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 97 Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 98 Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 99 Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
- 100 Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
- 101 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- 102 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 103 National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 104 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland.
- 105 Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
- 106 Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 107 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- 108 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina (St. Petersburg), Russia.
- 109 Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia.
- 110 Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
- 111 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
- 112 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 113 State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia.
- 114 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics and Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 115 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.
- 116 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 117 Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
- 118 Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
- 119 CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 120 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.
- 121 Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 122 Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 123 National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
- 124 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan.
- 125 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- 126 Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
- 127 Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 128 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 129 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 130 National Scientific Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine.
- 131 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
- 132 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
- 133 Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
- 134 Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
- 135 Baylor University, Waco, USA.
- 136 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.
- 137 Boston University, Boston, USA.
- 138 Brown University, Providence, USA.
- 139 University of California, Davis, Davis, USA.
- 140 University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- 141 University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA.
- 142 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
- 143 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA.
- 144 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.
- 145 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
- 146 University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA.
- 147 Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
- 148 Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA.
- 149 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA.
- 150 University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
- 151 Florida International University, Miami, USA.
- 152 Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
- 153 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA.
- 154 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, USA.
- 155 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
- 156 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
- 157 The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA.
- 158 Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.
- 159 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA.
- 160 University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
- 161 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
- 162 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
- 163 University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA.
- 164 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA.
- 165 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
- 166 Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
- 167 Northwestern University, Evanston, USA.
- 168 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA.
- 169 The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
- 170 Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
- 171 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, USA.
- 172 Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
- 173 Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, USA.
- 174 Rice University, Houston, USA.
- 175 University of Rochester, Rochester, USA.
- 176 The Rockefeller University, New York, USA.
- 177 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.
- 178 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
- 179 Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
- 180 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.
- 181 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
- 182 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
- 183 Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
- 184 University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
- PMID: 24856688
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.182001
Measurements of tt spin correlations and top-quark polarization using dilepton final states in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 2 Institut für Hochenergiephysik der OeAW, Wien, Austria.
- 3 National Centre for Particle and High Energy Physics, Minsk, Belarus.
- 4 Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
- 5 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium.
- 6 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- 7 Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- 8 Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- 9 Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium.
- 10 Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 11 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 12 Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 13 Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 14 Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 15 University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 16 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.
- 17 State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- 18 Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
- 19 Technical University of Split, Split, Croatia.
- 20 University of Split, Split, Croatia.
- 21 Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
- 22 University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- 23 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 24 Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt.
- 25 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia.
- 26 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- 27 Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland.
- 28 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.
- 29 DSM/IRFU, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 30 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Palaiseau, France.
- 31 Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg, Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, France.
- 32 Centre de Calcul de l'Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France.
- 33 Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
- 34 Institute of High Energy Physics and Informatization, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 35 RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany.
- 36 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany.
- 37 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany.
- 38 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
- 39 University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- 40 Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 41 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece.
- 42 University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 43 University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece.
- 44 KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
- 45 Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 46 University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 47 National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 48 Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
- 49 University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
- 50 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
- 51 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
- 52 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-EHEP, Mumbai, India.
- 53 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-HECR, Mumbai, India.
- 54 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
- 55 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- 56 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy and Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 57 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 58 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy and Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 59 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 60 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy and Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 61 INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy and Università di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 62 INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 63 INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 64 INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy and Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 65 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 66 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 67 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy and Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 68 INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 69 INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy and Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 70 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 71 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy and Università della Basilicata (Potenza), Napoli, Italy.
- 72 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy and Università di Napoli 'Federico II', Napoli, Italy.
- 73 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy and Università G. Marconi (Roma), Napoli, Italy.
- 74 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 75 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy and Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 76 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy and Università di Trento (Trento), Padova, Italy.
- 77 INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy and Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 78 INFN Sezione di Perugia and Università di Perugia.
- 79 INFN Sezione di Perugia.
- 80 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 81 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 82 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy and Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 83 INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy and Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.
- 84 INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy.
- 85 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy and Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 86 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy and Università del Piemonte Orientale (Novara), Torino, Italy.
- 87 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 88 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 89 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy and Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 90 Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea.
- 91 Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
- 92 Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea.
- 93 Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
- 94 University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
- 95 Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
- 96 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 97 Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 98 Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 99 Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
- 100 Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
- 101 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- 102 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 103 National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 104 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland.
- 105 Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
- 106 Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 107 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- 108 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina (St. Petersburg), Russia.
- 109 Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia.
- 110 Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
- 111 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
- 112 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 113 State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia.
- 114 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics and Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 115 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.
- 116 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 117 Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
- 118 Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
- 119 CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 120 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.
- 121 Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 122 Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 123 National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
- 124 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan.
- 125 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- 126 Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey.
- 127 Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 128 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 129 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 130 National Scientific Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine.
- 131 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
- 132 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
- 133 Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
- 134 Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
- 135 Baylor University, Waco, USA.
- 136 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.
- 137 Boston University, Boston, USA.
- 138 Brown University, Providence, USA.
- 139 University of California, Davis, Davis, USA.
- 140 University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- 141 University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA.
- 142 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
- 143 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA.
- 144 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.
- 145 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
- 146 University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA.
- 147 Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
- 148 Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA.
- 149 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA.
- 150 University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
- 151 Florida International University, Miami, USA.
- 152 Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
- 153 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA.
- 154 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, USA.
- 155 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
- 156 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
- 157 The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA.
- 158 Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.
- 159 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA.
- 160 University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
- 161 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
- 162 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
- 163 University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA.
- 164 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA.
- 165 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
- 166 Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
- 167 Northwestern University, Evanston, USA.
- 168 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA.
- 169 The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
- 170 Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
- 171 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, USA.
- 172 Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
- 173 Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, USA.
- 174 Rice University, Houston, USA.
- 175 University of Rochester, Rochester, USA.
- 176 The Rockefeller University, New York, USA.
- 177 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.
- 178 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
- 179 Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
- 180 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.
- 181 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
- 182 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
- 183 Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
- 184 University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
- PMID: 24856688
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.182001
Abstract
Spin correlations and polarization in the top quark-antiquark system are measured using dilepton final states produced in pp collisions at the LHC at sqrt[s]=7 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb(-1) collected with the CMS detector. The measurements are performed using events with two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons), a significant imbalance in transverse momentum, and two or more jets, where at least one of the jets is identified as originating from a b quark. The spin correlations and polarization are measured through asymmetries in angular distributions of the two selected leptons, unfolded to the parton level. All measurements are found to be in agreement with predictions of the standard model.
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Observation of Single Top Quark Production in Association with a Z Boson in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Ambrogi F, Asilar E, Bergauer T, Brandstetter J, Dragicevic M, Erö J, Escalante Del Valle A, Flechl M, Frühwirth R, Ghete VM, Hrubec J, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Krätschmer I, Liko D, Madlener T, Mikulec I, Rad N, Rohringer H, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Spanring M, Spitzbart D, Waltenberger W, Wittmann J, Wulz CE, Zarucki M, Chekhovsky V, Mossolov V, Suarez Gonzalez J, De Wolf EA, Di Croce D, Janssen X, Lauwers J, Lelek A, Pieters M, Van Haevermaet H, Van Mechelen P, Van Remortel N, Blekman F, D'Hondt J, De Clercq J, Deroover K, Flouris G, Lontkovskyi D, Lowette S, Marchesini I, Moortgat S, Moreels L, Python Q, Skovpen K, Tavernier S, Van Doninck W, Van Mulders P, Van Parijs I, Beghin D, Bilin B, Brun H, Clerbaux B, De Lentdecker G, Delannoy H, Dorney B, Fasanella G, Favart L, Grebenyuk A, Kalsi AK, Luetic J, Popov A, Postiau N, Starling E, Thomas L, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Vannerom D, Wang Q, Cornelis T, Dobur D, Fagot A, Gul M, Khvastunov I, Roskas C, Trocino D, Tytgat M, Verbeke W, Vermassen B, Vit M, Zaganidis N, Bondu O, Bruno G, Caputo C, David P, Delaere C, Delcourt M, Giammanco A, Krintiras G, Lemaitre V, Magitteri A, Piotrzkowski K, Saggio A, … See abstract for full author list ➔ Sirunyan AM, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Apr 5;122(13):132003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.132003. Phys Rev Lett. 2019. PMID: 31012605
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Search for flavor-changing neutral currents in top-quark decays t → Zq in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 8 TeV.Chatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Erö J, Fabjan C, Friedl M, Frühwirth R, Ghete VM, Hartl C, Hörmann N, Hrubec J, Jeitler M, Kiesenhofer W, Knünz V, Krammer M, Krätschmer I, Liko D, Mikulec I, Rabady D, Rahbaran B, Rohringer H, Schöfbeck R, Strauss J, Taurok A, Treberer-Treberspurg W, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Mossolov V, Shumeiko N, Suarez Gonzalez J, Alderweireldt S, Bansal M, Bansal S, Cornelis T, De Wolf EA, Janssen X, Knutsson A, Luyckx S, Mucibello L, Ochesanu S, Roland B, Rougny R, Van Haevermaet H, Van Mechelen P, Van Remortel N, Van Spilbeeck A, Blekman F, Blyweert S, D'Hondt J, Heracleous N, Kalogeropoulos A, Keaveney J, Kim TJ, Lowette S, Maes M, Olbrechts A, Strom D, Tavernier S, Van Doninck W, Van Mulders P, Van Onsem GP, Villella I, Caillol C, Clerbaux B, De Lentdecker G, Favart L, Gay AP, Hreus T, Léonard A, Marage PE, Mohammadi A, Perniè L, Reis T, Seva T, Thomas L, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Wang J, Adler V, Beernaert K, Benucci L, Cimmino A, Costantini S, Dildick S, Garcia G, Klein B, Lellouch J, Mccartin J, Ocampo Rios AA, Ryckbosch D, Sigamani M, Strobbe N, Thyssen F, Tytgat M, Walsh S, Yazgan E, Zaganidis N,… See abstract for full author list ➔ Chatrchyan S, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2014 May 2;112(17):171802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.171802. Epub 2014 May 2. Phys Rev Lett. 2014. PMID: 24836238
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Search for gluinos in events with two same-sign leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV.Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdel Khalek S, Abdelalim AA, Abdesselam A, Abdinov O, Abi B, Abolins M, AbouZeid OS, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Acerbi E, Acharya BS, Adamczyk L, Adams DL, Addy TN, Adelman J, Aderholz M, Adomeit S, Adragna P, Adye T, Aefsky S, Aguilar-Saavedra JA, Aharrouche M, Ahlen SP, Ahles F, Ahmad A, Ahsan M, Aielli G, Akdogan T, Åkesson TP, Akimoto G, Akimov AV, Akiyama A, Alam MS, Alam MA, Albert J, Albrand S, Aleksa M, Aleksandrov IN, Alessandria F, Alexa C, Alexander G, Alexandre G, Alexopoulos T, Alhroob M, Aliev M, Alimonti G, Alison J, Aliyev M, Allbrooke BM, Allport PP, Allwood-Spiers SE, Almond J, Aloisio A, Alon R, Alonso A, Alvarez Gonzalez B, Alviggi MG, Amako K, Amaral P, Amelung C, Ammosov VV, Amorim A, Amorós G, Amram N, Anastopoulos C, Ancu LS, Andari N, Andeen T, Anders CF, Anders G, Anderson KJ, Andreazza A, Andrei V, Andrieux ML, Anduaga XS, Angerami A, Anghinolfi F, Anisenkov A, Anjos N, Annovi A, Antonaki A, Antonelli M, Antonov A, Antos J, Anulli F, Aoun S, Aperio Bella L, Apolle R, Arabidze G, Aracena I, Arai Y, Arce AT, Arfaoui S, Arguin JF, Arik E, Arik M, Armbruster AJ, Arnaez O, Arnal V, Arnault C, Artamonov A, Artoni G, Arutinov D, Asai S… See abstract for full author list ➔ Aad G, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Jun 15;108(24):241802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.241802. Epub 2012 Jun 15. Phys Rev Lett. 2012. PMID: 23004260
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Measurement of associated production of vector bosons and top quark-antiquark pairs in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV.Chatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Aguilo E, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Erö J, Fabjan C, Friedl M, Frühwirth R, Ghete VM, Hörmann N, Hrubec J, Jeitler M, Kiesenhofer W, Knünz V, Krammer M, Krätschmer I, Liko D, Mikulec I, Pernicka M, Rabady D, Rahbaran B, Rohringer C, Rohringer H, Schöfbeck R, Strauss J, Taurok A, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Mossolov V, Shumeiko N, Suarez Gonzalez J, Alderweireldt S, Bansal M, Bansal S, Cornelis T, De Wolf EA, Janssen X, Luyckx S, Mucibello L, Ochesanu S, Roland B, Rougny R, Selvaggi M, Van Haevermaet H, Van Mechelen P, Van Remortel N, Van Spilbeeck A, Blekman F, Blyweert S, D'Hondt J, Gonzalez Suarez R, Kalogeropoulos A, Maes M, Olbrechts A, Tavernier S, Van Doninck W, Van Mulders P, Van Onsem GP, Villella I, Clerbaux B, De Lentdecker G, Dero V, Gay AP, Hreus T, Léonard A, Marage PE, Mohammadi A, Reis T, Thomas L, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Wang J, Adler V, Beernaert K, Cimmino A, Costantini S, Garcia G, Grunewald M, Klein B, Lellouch J, Marinov A, Mccartin J, Ocampo Rios AA, Ryckbosch D, Sigamani M, Strobbe N, Thyssen F, Tytgat M, Walsh S, Yazgan E, Zaganidis N, Basegmez S, Bruno G, Castello R, Ceard L, Delaere C, du Pree … See abstract for full author list ➔ Chatrchyan S, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Apr 26;110(17):172002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.172002. Epub 2013 Apr 25. Phys Rev Lett. 2013. PMID: 23679709
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Measurement of lepton differential distributions and the top quark mass in production in pp collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector.Aaboud M, Aad G, Abbott B, Abdinov O, Abeloos B, Abidi SH, AbouZeid OS, Abraham NL, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abreu R, Abulaiti Y, Acharya BS, Adachi S, Adamczyk L, Adelman J, Adersberger M, Adye T, Affolder AA, Afik Y, Agatonovic-Jovin T, Agheorghiesei C, Aguilar-Saavedra JA, Ahlen SP, Ahmadov F, Aielli G, Akatsuka S, Akerstedt H, Åkesson TPA, Akilli E, Akimov AV, Alberghi GL, Albert J, Albicocco P, Alconada Verzini MJ, Alderweireldt SC, Aleksa M, Aleksandrov IN, Alexa C, Alexander G, Alexopoulos T, Alhroob M, Ali B, Aliev M, Alimonti G, Alison J, Alkire SP, Allbrooke BMM, Allen BW, Allport PP, Aloisio A, Alonso A, Alonso F, Alpigiani C, Alshehri AA, Alstaty MI, Alvarez Gonzalez B, Álvarez Piqueras D, Alviggi MG, Amadio BT, Amaral Coutinho Y, Amelung C, Amidei D, Amor Dos Santos SP, Amoroso S, Amundsen G, Anastopoulos C, Ancu LS, Andari N, Andeen T, Anders CF, Anders JK, Anderson KJ, Andreazza A, Andrei V, Angelidakis S, Angelozzi I, Angerami A, Anisenkov AV, Anjos N, Annovi A, Antel C, Antonelli M, Antonov A, Antrim DJ, Anulli F, Aoki M, Aperio Bella L, Arabidze G, Arai Y, Araque JP, Araujo Ferraz V, Arce ATH, Ardell RE, Arduh FA, Arguin JF, Argyropoulos S, Arik M, Armbruster AJ, A… See abstract for full author list ➔ Aaboud M, et al. Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2017;77(11):804. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5349-9. Epub 2017 Nov 25. Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2017. PMID: 31999283 Free PMC article.
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