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在LHC观测$t\bar{t}Z$自旋相关

Observing $t\bar{t}Z$ spin correlations at the LHC

Baptiste Ravina, Ethan Simpson, James Howarth

摘要:

在大型强子对撞机(LHC)上产生顶-反顶夸克($t\bar{t}$)对的自旋关联是标准模型的一个实验验证的预言。在本文中,我们计算的全自旋密度矩阵$t\bar{t}Z$生产在次领先级精度QCD,质心能量为13和14 TeV。我们发现$Z$玻色子的额外发射导致了与$t\bar{t}$情况显著不同的自旋关联,并诱导了顶夸克的小的纵向极化。我们进一步提出了一种分析策略,可以导致观察到自旋相关的$t\bar{t}Z$事件在运行3结束的LHC,或可能更早的ATLAS和CMS数据集相结合。此外,我们表明,在自旋密度矩阵中所包含的纯角信息提供了新的约束的维度-6有效场论(EFT)运营商相关的$t$ - $Z$相互作用,没有任何参考的总生产率。

英文摘要:

Spin correlations in the production of top-antitop quark ($t\bar{t}$) pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are an experimentally verified prediction of the Standard Model. In this paper, we compute the full spin density matrix for $t\bar{t}Z$ production at next-to-leading order precision in QCD, for center-of-mass energies of 13 and 14 TeV. We find that the additional emission of a $Z$ boson leads to significantly different spin correlations with respect to the $t\bar{t}$ case, and induces small longitudinal polarisations of the top quarks. We further propose an analysis strategy that could lead to the observation of spin correlations in $t\bar{t}Z$ events at the end of Run 3 of the LHC, or possibly earlier by combining the ATLAS and CMS datasets. In addition, we show that the pure angular information contained in the spin density matrix provides novel constraints on the dimension-6 effective field theory (EFT) operators relevant to the $t$-$Z$ interaction, without any reference to the total production rates.

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