Measurement of Spin Correlation Between Top and Antitop Quarks Produced in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}
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Release | : 2015 |
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Download or read book Measurement of Spin Correlation Between Top and Antitop Quarks Produced in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present a measurement of the correlation between the spins of t and tbar quarks produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. We apply a matrix element technique to dilepton and single-lepton+jets final states in data accumulated with the D0 detector that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 9.7 fb$^{-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.