Light Top Squark in Precision Top Quark Sample
Abstract
The uncertainty of production cross section measurement at LHC is at a-few-percent level which still allows the stop pair production with identical final states . In this paper, we attempt to use the existing measurement of -polarization in top quark decay to improve the distinction between stop and top quark states. We apply the ATLAS method of -polarization measurement in semi-leptonic 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 due to the reconstruction. The benchmark point with maximal contribution to top events only changes by 1%. After comparing with the current experiments, we conclude that the current measurement of -polarization in decay cannot exclude the light stop scenario.
Cite
@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