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Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at √s = 8 TeV. / The CMS collaboration; The ATLAS collaboration; Bogdanchikov, A. G.
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T1 - Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at √s = 8 TeV
AU - The CMS collaboration
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abbott, D. C.
AU - Abed Abud, A.
AU - Abeling, K.
AU - Abhayasinghe, D. K.
AU - Abidi, S. H.
AU - Abou Zeid, O. S.
AU - Abraham, N. L.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Achkar, B.
AU - Adam, L.
AU - Adam Bourdarios, C.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adamek, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adiguzel, A.
AU - Adorni, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agapopoulou, C.
AU - Agaras, M. N.
AU - Aggarwal, A.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahmad, A.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Anisenkov, A. V.
AU - Baldin, E. M.
AU - Beloborodov, K.
AU - Bobrovnikov, V. S.
AU - Buzykaev, A. R.
AU - Kazanin, V. F.
AU - Kharlamov, A. G.
AU - Kharlamova, T.
AU - Maslennikov, A. L.
AU - Maximov, D. A.
AU - Peleganchuk, S. V.
AU - Podberezko, P.
AU - Rezanova, O. L.
AU - Soukharev, A. M.
AU - Talyshev, A. A.
AU - Tikhonov, Yu A.
AU - Zhulanov, V.
AU - Bogdanchikov, A. G.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
KW - Top physics
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051
DO - 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090035581
VL - 2020
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1029-8479
IS - 8
M1 - 51
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