24–31 Jul 2009
Wayne State University
US/Eastern timezone

Measurement of top pair spin correlation using CDF data

27 Jul 2009, 16:45
15m
Wayne State University

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Top Quark Physics Top Quark Physics I

Speaker

Dr Alexei Varganov (the University o Michigan)

Description

According to standard model top quarks decay weakly before any hadronization processes take effect. This enables top quark spin information to be transmitted to the top quark decay products. We discuss the measurement method for various decay channels and report first result for spin correlation in top pairs using dilepton events.

Author

Dr Alexei Varganov (the University o Michigan)

Presentation materials