Measurement of spin correlation between top and antitop quarks produced in collisions at
Journal Article
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· Physics Letters B
Here, we present a measurement of the correlation between the spins of t and tbar quarks produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. We apply a matrix element technique to dilepton and single-lepton+jets final states in data accumulated with the D0 detector that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 9.7 fb$$^{-1}$$. The measured value of the correlation coefficient in the off-diagonal basis, $$O_{off} = 0.89 \pm 0.22$$ (stat + syst), is in agreement with the standard model prediction, and represents evidence for a top-antitop quark spin correlation difference from zero at a level of 4.2 standard deviations.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- D0 Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1244584
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1244527
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-15-581-E; arXiv:1512.08818; S0370269316300247; PII: S0370269316300247
- Journal Information:
- Physics Letters B, Journal Name: Physics Letters B Vol. 757 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0370-2693
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
Cited by: 8 works
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