Spin correlation in t(t)over-bar production from p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV

Authors
Abbott, B Abramov, MAV Abolins, M Abramov, V Acharya, BS Adams, DL Adams, M Akimov, V Alves, GA Amos, N Anderson, EW Baarmand, MM Babintsev, VV Babukhadia, L Baden, A Baldin, B Banerjee, S Bantly, J Barberis, E Baringer, P Bartlett, JF Bassler, U Bean, A Belyaev, A Beri, SB Bernardi, G Bertram, I Bezzubov, VA Bhat, PC Bhatnagar, V Bhattacharjee, M Blazey, G Blessing, S Boehnlein, A Bojko, NI Borcherding, F Brandt, A Breedon, R Briskin, G Brock, R Brooijmans, G Bross, A Buchholz, D Bueschre, V Burtovoi, VS Butler, JM Carvalho, W Casey, D Casilum, Z Castilla-Valdez, H Chakraborty, D Chan, KM Chekulaev, SV Chen, W Cho, DK Choi, S Chopra, S Choudhary, BC Christenson, JH Chung, M Claes, D Clark, AR Cobau, WG Cochran, J Coney, L Connolly, B Cooper, WE Coppage, D Cullen-Vidal, D Cummings, MAC Cutts, D Dahl, OI Davis, K De, K Del Signore, K Demarteau, M Denisov, D Denisov, SP Diehl, HT Diesburg, M Di Loreto, G Draper, P Ducros, Y Dudko, LV Dugad, SR Dyshkant, A Edmunds, D Ellison, J Elvira, VD Engelmann, R Eno, S Eppley, G Ermolov, P Eroshin, OV Estrada, J Evans, H Evdokimov, VN Fahland, T Feher, S Fein, D Ferbel, T Fisk, HE Fisyak, Y Flattum, E Fleuret, F Fortner, M Frame, KC Fuess, S Gallas, E Galyaev, AN Gartung, P Gavrilov, V Genik, RJ Genser, K Gerber, CE Gershtein, Y Gibbard, B Gilmartin, R Ginther, G Gobbi, B Gomez, B Gomez, G Goncharov, PI Solis, JLG Gordon, H Goss, LT Gounder, K Goussiou, A Graf, N Grannis, PD Green, JA Greenlee, H Grinstein, S Grudberg, P Grunendahl, S Guglielmo, G Gupta, A Gurzhiev, SN Gutierrez, G Gutierrez, P Hadley, NJ Haggerty, H Hagopian, S Hagopian, V Hahn, KS Hall, RE Hanlet, P Hansen, S Hauptman, JM Hays, C Hebert, C Hedin, D Heinson, AP Heintz, U Heuring, T Hirosky, R Hobbs, JD Hoeneisen, B Hoftun, JS Ito, AS Jerger, SA Jesik, R Joffe-Minor, T Johns, K Johnson, M Jonckheere, A Jones, M Jostlein, H Jun, SY Juste, A Kahn, S Kajfasz, E Karmanov, D Karmgard, D Kehoe, R Kim, SK Klima, B Klopfenstein, C Knuteson, B Ko, W Kohli, JM Kostritskiy, AV Kotcher, J Kotwal, AV Kozelov, AV Kozlovsky, EA Krane, J Krishnaswamy, MR Krzywdzinski, S Kubantsev, M Kuleshov, S Kulik, Y Kunori, S Landsberg, G Leflat, A Lehner, F Li, J Li, QZ Lima, JGR Lincoln, D Linn, SL Linnemann, J Lipton, R Lu, JG Lucotte, A Lueking, L Lundstedt, C Maciel, AKA Madaras, RJ Manankov, V Mani, S Mao, HS Markeloff, R Marshall, T Martin, MI Martin, RD Mauritz, KM May, B Mayorov, AA McCarthy, R McDonald, J McKibben, T McMahon, T Melanson, HL Merkin, M Merritt, KW Miao, C Miettinen, H Mihalcea, D Mincer, A Mishra, CS Mokhov, N Mondal, NK Montgomery, HE Mostafa, M da Motta, H Nagy, E Nang, F Narain, M Narasimham, VS Neal, HA Negret, JP Negroni, S Norman, D Oesch, L Oguri, V Olivier, B Oshima, N Padley, P Pan, LJ Para, A Parashar, N Partridge, R Parua, N Paterno, M Patwa, A Pawlik, B Perkins, J Peters, M Piegaia, R Piekarz, H Pope, BG Popkov, E Prosper, HB Protopopescu, S Qian, J Quintas, PZ Raja, R Rajagopalan, S Reay, NW Reucroft, S Rijssenbeek, M Rockwell, T Roco, M Rubinov, P Ruchti, R Rutherfoord, J Santoro, A Sawyer, L Schamberger, RD Schellman, H Schwartzman, A Sculli, J Sen, N Shabalina, E Shankar, HC Shivpuri, RK Shpakov, D Shupe, M Sidwell, RA Singh, H Singh, JB Sirotenko, V Slattery, P Smith, E Smith, RP Snihur, R Snow, GR Snow, J Snyder, S Solomon, J Song, XF Sorin, V Sosebee, M Sotnikova, N Souza, M Stanton, NR Steinbruck, G Stephens, RW Stevenson, ML Stichelbaut, F Stoker, D Stolin, V Stoyanova, DA Strauss, M Streets, K Strovink, M Stutte, L Sznajder, A Tarazi, J Taylor, W Tentindo-Repond, S Thomas, TLT Thompson, J Toback, D Trippe, TG Turcot, AS Tuts, PM van Gemmeren, P Vaniev, V Varelas, N Volkov, AA Vorobiev, AP Wahl, HD Wang, H Warchol, J Watts, G Wayne, M Weerts, H White, A White, JT Whiteson, D Wightman, JA Willis, S Wimpenny, SJ Wirjawan, JVD Womersley, J Wood, DR Yamada, R Yamin, P Yasuda, T Yip, K Youssef, S Yu, J Yu, Z Zanabria, M Zheng, H Zhou, Z Zhu, ZH Zielinski, M Zieminska, D Zieminski, A Zutshi, V Zverev, EG Zylberstejn, A
Citation
B. Abbott et al., Spin correlation in t(t)over-bar production from p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV, PHYS REV L, 85(2), 2000, pp. 256-261
Citations number
38
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
0031-9007 → ACNP
Volume
85
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
256 - 261
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20000710)85:2<256:SCITPF>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The D0 collaboration has performed a study of spin correlation in t (t) ove r tilde production for the process t (t) over bar --> bW(+)(b) over bar W-, where the W bosons decay to e nu or mu nu. A sample of six events was coll ected during an exposure of the DO detector to an integrated luminosity of approximately 125 pb(-1) of root s = 1.8 TeV p (p) over bar collisions. The standard model (SM) predicts that the short lifetime of the top quark ensu res the transmission of any spin information at production to the t (t) ove r bar decay products. The degree of spin correlation is characterized by a correlation coefficient kappa. We find that kappa > -0.25 at the 68% confid ence level. in agreement with the SM prediction of kappa = 0.88.