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Quantum spin correlations in $Z^\prime$-mediated $t\bar{t}$ production at future lepton colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-16 v1

Abstract

We study quantum spin correlations in top-quark pair production at future lepton colliders in the presence of a neutral gauge boson from anomaly-free general U(1)U(1) extensions of the Standard Model. The process +ttˉ\ell^+\ell^-\to t\bar t, with =e,μ\ell=e,\mu, is analyzed through the spin-density matrix including γ\gamma, ZZ and ZZ^\prime exchange and their interference. We focus on quantum-information observables such as the sufficient entanglement marker Dmin\mathcal{D}_{\min}, concurrence, purity and the maximal Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) parameter, and compare their behavior with conventional rate information. Within the U(1)XU(1)_X framework, we consider several representative charge assignments to investigate how different chiral structures influence these observables, with particular emphasis on the ZZ^\prime resonance region and polarized ee+e^-e^+ collisions, where the two allowed initial-state helicity configurations can be selectively enhanced. We show that electron-beam polarization provides a direct handle on the left- and right-handed lepton charges of various U(1)XU(1)_X scenarios. These results demonstrate that quantum spin observables provide information complementary to cross sections and angular distributions in searches for chiral neutral gauge interactions.

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@article{arxiv.2607.15153,
  title  = {Quantum spin correlations in $Z^\prime$-mediated $t\bar{t}$ production at future lepton colliders},
  author = {ShivaSankar K. A. and Arindam Das and Sanjoy Mandal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15153},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 10 figures, and 3 tables