Measurement of top quark polarisation in t-channel single top quark production

A first measurement of the top quark spin asymmetry, sensitive to the top quark polarisation, in t-channel single top quark production is presented. It is based on a sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. A hi...

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Main Authors: Apyan, Aram (Contributor), Barbieri, Riccardo (Contributor), Baty, Austin Alan (Contributor), Bierwagen, Katharina (Contributor), Brandt, Stephanie Akemi (Contributor), Busza, Wit (Contributor), Cali, Ivan Amos (Contributor), Demiragli, Zeynep (Contributor), Di Matteo, Leonardo (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Gulhan, Doga Can (Contributor), Iiyama, Yutaro (Contributor), Innocenti, Gian Michele (Contributor), Klute, Markus (Contributor), Kovalskyi, Dmytro (Contributor), Lai, Yue Shi (Contributor), Lee, Yen-Jie (Contributor), Levin, Andrew Michael (Contributor), Luckey Jr, P David (Contributor), Marini, Andrea Carlo (Contributor), McGinn, Christopher Francis (Contributor), Mironov, Camelia Maria (Contributor), Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan (Contributor), Niu, Xinmei (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Ralph, Duncan Kelley (Contributor), Roland, Christof E (Contributor), Roland, Gunther M (Contributor), Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry (Contributor), Stephans, George S. F. (Contributor), Sumorok, Konstanty C (Contributor), Varma, Mukund Madhav (Contributor), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Contributor), Veverka, Jan (Contributor), Wang, J. (Contributor), Wang, Ta-Wei (Contributor), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Contributor), Yang, Mingming (Contributor), Wyslouch, Victoria (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag/SISSA, 2017-02-07T17:04:45Z.
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100 1 0 |a Bierwagen, Katharina  |e contributor 
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100 1 0 |a Busza, Wit  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Cali, Ivan Amos  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Demiragli, Zeynep  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Di Matteo, Leonardo  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Goncharov, Maxim  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Gulhan, Doga Can  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Iiyama, Yutaro  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Innocenti, Gian Michele  |e contributor 
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100 1 0 |a Kovalskyi, Dmytro  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Lai, Yue Shi  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Lee, Yen-Jie  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Levin, Andrew Michael  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Luckey Jr, P David  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Marini, Andrea Carlo  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a McGinn, Christopher Francis  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Mironov, Camelia Maria  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Niu, Xinmei  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Paus, Christoph M. E.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Ralph, Duncan Kelley  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Roland, Christof E  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Roland, Gunther M  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Stephans, George S. F.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Sumorok, Konstanty C  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Varma, Mukund Madhav  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Veverka, Jan  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Wang, J.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Wang, Ta-Wei  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Wyslouch, Boleslaw  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Yang, Mingming  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Wyslouch, Victoria  |e contributor 
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700 1 0 |a Baty, Austin Alan  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Bierwagen, Katharina  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Brandt, Stephanie Akemi  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Busza, Wit  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Cali, Ivan Amos  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Demiragli, Zeynep  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Di Matteo, Leonardo  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Goncharov, Maxim  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Gulhan, Doga Can  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Iiyama, Yutaro  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Innocenti, Gian Michele  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Klute, Markus  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Kovalskyi, Dmytro  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Lai, Yue Shi  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Lee, Yen-Jie  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Levin, Andrew Michael  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Luckey Jr, P David  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Marini, Andrea Carlo  |e author 
700 1 0 |a McGinn, Christopher Francis  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Mironov, Camelia Maria  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Niu, Xinmei  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Paus, Christoph M. E.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Ralph, Duncan Kelley  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Roland, Christof E  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Roland, Gunther M  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Stephans, George S. F.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Sumorok, Konstanty C  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Varma, Mukund Madhav  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Veverka, Jan  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Wang, J.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Wang, Ta-Wei  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Wyslouch, Boleslaw  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Yang, Mingming  |e author 
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520 |a A first measurement of the top quark spin asymmetry, sensitive to the top quark polarisation, in t-channel single top quark production is presented. It is based on a sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. A high-purity sample of t-channel single top quark events with an isolated muon is selected. Signal and background components are estimated using a fit to data. A differential cross section measurement, corrected for detector effects, of an angular observable sensitive to the top quark polarisation is performed. The differential distribution is used to extract a top quark spin asymmetry of 0.26 ± 0.03(stat) ± 0.10(syst), which is compatible with a p-value of 4.6% with the standard model prediction of 0.44. 
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773 |t Journal of High Energy Physics