Measurement of tt̅ spin correlation in pp̅ collisions using the CDF II detector at the Tevatron
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Aaltonen, Timo Antero; Álvarez González, Bárbara; Casal Laraña, Bruno; Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier; Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio





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2011-02-23Derechos
© 2011 American Physical Society
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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2011, 83(3), 031104(R)
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American Physical Society
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The tt̅ spin correlation at production is a fundamental prediction of QCD and a potentially incisive test of new physics coupled to top quarks. We measure the tt̅ spin state in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using 1001 candidate events in the lepton plus jets decay channel reconstructed in the CDF II detector. In the helicity basis, for a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV/c2, we find a spin correlation coefficient κ=0.60±0.50 (stat)±0.16 (syst), consistent with the QCD prediction, κ≈0.40.
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