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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Measuring top-quark polarization in top-pair + missing-energy events
Edmond L Berger1, Qing-Hong Cao, Jiang-Hao Yu
1High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Abstract:
The polarization of a top quark can be sensitive to new physics beyond the standard model. Since the charged lepton from top-quark decay is maximally correlated with the top-quark spin, it is common to measure the polarization from the distribution in the angle between the charged lepton and the top-quark directions. We propose a novel method based on the charged lepton energy fraction and illustrate the method with a detailed simulation of top-quark pairs produced in supersymmetric top squark pair production. We show that the lepton energy ratio distribution that we define is very sensitive to the top-quark polarization but insensitive to the precise measurement of the top-quark energy.
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