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Measurement of the correlations between the polar angles of leptons from top quark decays in the helicity basis at $\sqrt{s}=7$TeV using the ATLAS detector

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Aad, Georges , Abbott, Brad , Abdallah, Jalal , Abdinov, Ovsat , Aben, Rosemarie , Abolins, Maris , AbouZeid, Ossama , Abramowicz, Halina , Abreu, Henso , Abreu, Ricardo
Phys.Rev.D 93 (2016) 012002, 2016.
https://doi.org/10.17182/hepdata.76911.v1

Abstract (data abstract)
CERN-LHC. A measurement of the correlations between the polar angles of leptons from the decay of pair-produced $t$ and $\bar{t}$ quarks in the helicity basis is reported, using proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.6fb$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV collected during 2011. Candidate events are selected in the dilepton topology with large missing transverse momentum and at least two jets. The angles $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$ between the charged leptons and the direction of motion of the parent quarks in the $t\bar{t}$ rest frame are sensitive to the spin information, and the distribution of $\cos\theta_1\cdot\cos\theta_2$ is sensitive to the spin correlation between the $t$ and $\bar{t}$ quarks. The distribution is unfolded to parton level and compared to the next-to-leading order prediction. A good agreement is observed.

  • Table 1

    Data from Table 4

    10.17182/hepdata.76911.v1/t1

    The numerical summary of the unfolded $\cos\theta_1\cdot\cos\theta_2$ distribution, with statistical and systematic uncertainties.

  • Table 2

    Data from Table 3

    10.17182/hepdata.76911.v1/t2

    The correlation factors for the statistical uncertainties between any two bins of the unfolded distribution.

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