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New Method for Reconstructing Effective Top Quark Spin

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a new method for reconstructing an effective spin direction of a semi-leptonically decayed top quark. The method is simple: for instance, it does not require the spin information of the antitop quark in a ttbar event. The reconstructed effective spin is expected to be useful in hadron collider experiments. We demonstrate its usefulness in an analysis of the top decay vertex.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512205,
  title  = {New Method for Reconstructing Effective Top Quark Spin},
  author = {Y. Sumino and S. Tsuno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512205},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures; one reference added; version to appear in Phys.Lett.B