Angular Correlations in Top Quark Pair Production and Decay at Hadron Colliders
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We show how to observe sizable angular correlations between the decay products of the top quark and those of the anti-top quark in top quark pair production and decay at hadron colliders. These correlations result from the large asymmetry in the rate for producing like-spin versus unlike-spin top quark pairs provided the appropriate spin axes are used. The effects of new physics at production or decay on these correlations are briefly discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9512264,
title = {Angular Correlations in Top Quark Pair Production and Decay at Hadron Colliders},
author = {Gregory Mahlon and Stephen Parke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9512264},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
34 pages, revtex, including 12 uuencoded postscript figures