Measurements of tt¯ spin correlations and top quark polarization using dilepton final states in pp collisions at s√=8  T

Khachatryan, V.; Işıldak, Bora

dc.contributor.author	Khachatryan, V.
dc.contributor.author	Işıldak, Bora
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-29T13:04:30Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-29T13:04:30Z
dc.date.issued	2016-03-01
dc.identifier.issn	1550-2368
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10679/4095
dc.identifier.uri	http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052007
dc.description.abstract	Measurements of the top quark-antiquark (tt¯) spin correlations and the top quark polarization are presented for tt¯ pairs produced in pp collisions at s√=8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The measurements are performed using events with two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons) and two or more jets, where at least one of the jets is identified as originating from a bottom quark. The spin correlations and polarization are measured from the angular distributions of the two selected leptons, both inclusively and differentially, with respect to the invariant mass, rapidity, and transverse momentum of the tt¯ system. The measurements are unfolded to the parton level and found to be in agreement with predictions of the standard model. A search for new physics in the form of anomalous top quark chromo moments is performed. No evidence of new physics is observed, and exclusion limits on the real part of the chromo-magnetic dipole moment and the imaginary part of the chromo-electric dipole moment are evaluated.
dc.description.sponsorship	The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian Science Fund ; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ; the Brazilian Funding Agencies ; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN ; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China ; the Colombian Funding Agency ; the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport ; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Ministry of Education and Research ; and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules/CNRS, and Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives/CEA, France; the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary; the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the World Class University program of NRF, Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Mexican Funding Agencies ; the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundac¸ao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaria de Estado de Investigacio´n, Desarrollo e Innovacion and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies ; the National Science Council, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand ; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority ; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the U.S. Department of Energy, and NSF ; European Union ; the Leventis Foundation ; the A. P. Sloan Foundation ; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; the Fonds pour la Formation a` la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWTBelgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the HOMING PLUS program of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Regional Development Fund; and the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF ; Qatar National Research Fund ; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship ; Chulalongkorn University ; the Welch Foundation.
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	American Physical Society.
dc.relation	info:turkey/grantAgreement/TUBITAK
dc.relation.ispartof	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
dc.rights	restrictedAccess
dc.title	Measurements of tt¯ spin correlations and top quark polarization using dilepton final states in pp collisions at s√=8 T	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publicationstatus	published	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Özyeğin University
dc.contributor.authorID	(ORCID 0000-0002-0283-5234 & YÖK ID 124605) Işıldak, Bora
dc.contributor.ozuauthor	Işıldak, Bora
dc.creator	The CMS Collaboration
dc.identifier.volume	93
dc.identifier.issue	5
dc.identifier.wos	WOS:000371742000002
dc.identifier.doi	10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052007
dc.identifier.scopus	SCOPUS:2-s2.0-84962244796
dc.contributor.authorMale	1