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Spin Correlations in Top Quark Production and the Top Quark Mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Top-antitop quark pairs produced at the Tevatron have a sizeable spin correlation. That correlation feeds into the angular distribution of the decay products, particularly in the dilepton channel. Including the expected correlation in an overall analysis of a handful of actual dilepton events continues to favor a lower top mass (centered on 155 GeV) than the single lepton events.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9611314,
  title  = {Spin Correlations in Top Quark Production and the Top Quark Mass},
  author = {Gary R. Goldstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9611314},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages Latex2e and 3 PostScript figures. Paper presented at SPIN96 - Amsterdam. To be published in Proceedings