Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-07-10
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, talk presented at top2010, Bruges, Belgium
Scientific paper
We compare theoretical expectations for the observation of spin correlations in top quark pair production and decay at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In particular, we note that the differing top quark pair production mechanisms in the two environments test different aspects of the Standard Model and require different strategies to observe the correlations. At the Tevatron, production is dominated by q qbar --> t tbar and the strategy is to construct a double-decay angle distribution where one decay angle is measured in the t rest frame and the other in the tbar rest frame. The dominant process at the LHC is gg --> t tbar, with a rich spin structure that allows for a second option in observing spin correlations. Here the strategy is to select events where the t tbar pair is produced at relatively low velocity in the zero momentum frame (ZMF). For these events, there are strong azimuthal correlations between t and tbar decay products present. This measurement enjoys the advantage that it can be carried out in the laboratory frame.
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