Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at √s = 8 TeV

The combination of measurements of the W boson polarization in top quark decays performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations is presented. The measurements are based on proton-proton collision data produced at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to an integrated luminosit...

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Hauptverfasser: Aad, Georges (VerfasserIn) , Anders, Christoph (VerfasserIn) , Andrei, George Victor (VerfasserIn) , Bartels, Falk (VerfasserIn) , Bolz, Arthur (VerfasserIn) , Czurylo, Marta (VerfasserIn) , Dunford, Monica (VerfasserIn) , Ferreira de Lima, Danilo Enoque (VerfasserIn) , Franchino, Silvia (VerfasserIn) , Helary, Louis (VerfasserIn) , Jongmanns, Jan (VerfasserIn) , Klassen, Martin (VerfasserIn) , Krishnan, Anjali (VerfasserIn) , Kugel, Andreas (VerfasserIn) , Meyer zu Theenhausen, Hanno (VerfasserIn) , Mkrtchyan, Tigran (VerfasserIn) , Napolitano, Fabrizio (VerfasserIn) , Ott, Philipp (VerfasserIn) , S̜ahinsoy, Merve (VerfasserIn) , Schöning, André (VerfasserIn) , Schultz-Coulon, Hans-Christian (VerfasserIn) , Spieker, Thomas (VerfasserIn) , Stamen, Rainer (VerfasserIn) , Starovoitov, Pavel (VerfasserIn) , Suchek, Stanislav (VerfasserIn) , Vigani, Luigi (VerfasserIn) , Wang, Jike (VerfasserIn) , Weber, Sebastian (VerfasserIn) , Wessels, Martin (VerfasserIn) , Yue, Xiaoguang (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaften: ATLAS Collaboration (VerfasserIn) , CMS Collaboration (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: August 12, 2020
In: Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2020, Heft: 8
ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051
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Verfasserangaben:the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations
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Zusammenfassung:The combination of measurements of the W boson polarization in top quark decays performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations is presented. The measurements are based on proton-proton collision data produced at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 20 fb−1 for each experiment. The measurements used events containing one lepton and having different jet multiplicities in the final state. The results are quoted as fractions of W bosons with longitudinal (F0), left-handed (FL), or right-handed (FR) polarizations. The resulting combined measurements of the polarization fractions are F0 = 0.693 ± 0.014 and FL = 0.315 ± 0.011. The fraction FR is calculated from the unitarity constraint to be FR = −0.008 ± 0.007. These results are in agreement with the standard model predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics and represent an improvement in precision of 25 (29)% for F0 (FL) with respect to the most precise single measurement. A limit on anomalous right-handed vector (VR), and left- and right-handed tensor (gL, gR) tWb couplings is set while fixing all others to their standard model values. The allowed regions are [−0.11, 0.16] for VR, [−0.08, 0.05] for gL, and [−0.04, 0.02] for gR, at 95% confidence level. Limits on the corresponding Wilson coefficients are also derived.
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ISSN:1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051