Distributions and correlations for top quark pair production and decay at the Tevatron and LHC

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.05.001zbMATH Open1206.81139arXiv1003.3926OpenAlexW2130593347MaRDI QIDQ627809FDOQ627809

Authors: Werner Bernreuther, Zong-Guo Si 

Publication date: 4 March 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a number of observables that are and will be instrumental in the exploration of $bart$ production and decay at the Tevatron and the LHC. For this analysis we made a computer program that incorporates besides the NLO QCD corrections to $bart$ production and decay also mixed weak-QCD corrections to the production amplitudes, and that allows for studies of correlated versus uncorrelated $bart$ events. In this paper we analyze and compute observables mostly for dileptonic $bart$ final states to next-to-leading order in the strong and weak gauge couplings (NLOW), with selection cuts. We calculate charge asymmetries of the top quark and of $ell=e,mu$ and we compare, where possible, with experimental results. We show that top-quark spin correlations affect a leptonic pair asymmetry (which has not been measured so far) by $sim7\mathrm{\%}$. We determine several dileptonic angular correlations, which reflect $bart$ spin correlations, namely the beam, off-diagonal and helicity correlation, and the opening angle distribution (defined in the $t$, $$ rest frames) when selection cuts are applied. Our NLOW predictions for the beam, off-diagonal, and helicity correlation for the Tevatron agree with recent measurements by the CDF and D0 experiments. In addition we make predictions for estimators of these correlations as functions of $mtt$. These estimators may prove useful for the Tevatron and also in the early rounds of LHC data-analyses, where the event numbers will probably not be abundant. Furthermore, we compute to NLOW in the gauge couplings two dilepton angular correlations that are defined in the laboratory frame, for correlated and uncorrelated $bart$ events at the LHC. Finally, based on our SM results, we identify several observables that allow to search for non-standard parity- and CP-violating interactions, especially with future LHC data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3926

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zbMATH Keywords

hadron collider physicsQCD and weak correctionstop quarks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

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