Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2011-04-19
Phys.Rev.Lett.107:021802,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.021802
A first measurement of the polarization of W bosons with large transverse momenta in pp collisions is presented. The measurement is based on 36 inverse picobarns of data recorded at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC. The left-handed, right-handed and longitudinal polarization fractions (f_L, f_R, f_0) of W bosons with transverse momenta larger than 50 GeV are determined using decays to both electrons and muons. The muon final state yields the most precise measurement, (f_L - f_R) = 0.240 +/- 0.036 (stat.) +/- 0.031 (syst.) and f_0 = 0.183 +/- 0.087 (stat.) +/- 0.123 (syst.) for negatively charged W bosons, and (f_L - f_R) = 0.310 +/- 0.036 (stat.) +/- 0.017 (syst.) and f_0 = 0.171 +/- 0.085 (stat.) +/- 0.099 (syst.) for positively charged W bosons. This establishes, for the first time, that W bosons produced in pp collisions with large transverse momenta are predominantly left-handed, as expected in the standard model.
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