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Spin correlations in top physics at ATLAS and CMS in Run 2

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-05-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Measurements of ttˉ\mathrm{t\bar{t}} spin correlations are presented in events with top quarks produced in pp\mathrm{pp} collisions at the LHC. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36fb136\:\mathrm{fb^{-1}} at s=13TeV\sqrt{s}=13\:\mathrm{TeV} collected at both the ATLAS and CMS detectors. The spin correlations are measured using the angular distributions of the leptons in dilepton channel ttˉ\mathrm{t\bar{t}} events. The spin correlations are probed both directly, using distributions measured in the top quark rest frames that depend only on the top quark spin, and indirectly, using distributions measured in the laboratory frame. The distributions are unfolded to the parton level and extrapolated to the full phase space. Some of the laboratory frame distributions are additionally unfolded to the particle level in the fiducial phase space of the ATLAS detector. The spin correlation measurements are used to search for new physics in the form of a light top squark or an anomalous top quark chromo-magnetic dipole moment, and stringent constraints are placed in both cases.

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@article{arxiv.1905.08634,
  title  = {Spin correlations in top physics at ATLAS and CMS in Run 2},
  author = {Jacob Linacre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08634},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Contribution to the 2019 EW session of the 54th Rencontres de Moriond