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Light Top Squark in Precision Top Quark Sample

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-23 v2

Abstract

The uncertainty of ttˉt\bar{t} production cross section measurement at LHC is at a-few-percent level which still allows the stop pair production t~t~\tilde{t}\tilde{t}^{*} with identical final states 2b++nj+ET2b+\ell+nj+{E}_{T}. In this paper, we attempt to use the existing measurement of WW-polarization in top quark decay to improve the distinction between stop and top quark states. We apply the ATLAS χ2\chi^2 method of WW-polarization measurement in semi-leptonic ttˉt\bar{t} final state to semi-leptonic stop pair samples and study its prediction. We find that the faked top events from stop mostly contribute to the left-handed polarized WW due to the reconstruction. The benchmark point with maximal contribution to top events only changes FLF_{L} by 1%. After comparing with the current experiments, we conclude that the current measurement of WW-polarization in tt decay cannot exclude the light stop scenario.

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@article{arxiv.1311.6874,
  title  = {Light Top Squark in Precision Top Quark Sample},
  author = {Xue-Qian Li and Zong-Guo Si and Kai Wang and Liucheng Wang and Liangliang Zhang and Guohuai Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6874},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, 7 figures, a short version, conclusion unchanged, reference added

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