Measurement of top quark polarization in top-antitop lepton+jets final states at D0
- Czech Technical Univ., Prague (Czech Republic)
This thesis presents a measurement of the top quark polarization in the $$t\overline{t}$$ events produced in $$p\overline{p}$$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=1.96$$ TeV using data corresponding to 9.7 fb$$^{-1}$$ of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The final states used in the measurement contain one lepton and at least three jets. The polarization is measured using the angular distribution of leptons along three different axes: the beam axis, the helicity axis, and the transverse axis normal to the $$t\overline{t}$$ production plane. This is the first measurement of top quark polarization at the Tevatron Collider in lepton+jets final states, and the first measurement of transverse polarization in $$t\overline{t}$$ production. The polarization along the beam axis is combined with the previous result in the dilepton final states by the D0 experiment. The observed distributions are consistent with the Standard Model of nearly no polarization and no indication for beyond Standard Model physics is observed. The measurement offers legacy result from unique Tevatron Collider data and provides more information about the top quark production and decays, about the properties of the heaviest elementary particle.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1347927
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-2017-06; 1518888
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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