11–13 May 2026
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Spin‑Density Matrices as probes of CP violation in Top–Higgs Interactions

12 May 2026, 14:45
15m
David Lawrence Hall 106, University of Pittsburgh

David Lawrence Hall 106, University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Marcel I. Yanez

Description

We investigate how CP‑violating top–Higgs couplings could influence top‑quark pair production at the LHC. To study these effects, we construct the reduced spin density matrix of the $t \bar{t}$ final state and explore a broad class of observables, including those motivated by quantum‑information approaches to spin correlations. We make use of an automated framework that provides the reduced helicity density matrix for $gg,q\bar q \rightarrow t \bar t$ while incorporating the effects of both QCD and electroweak corrections. The phenomenological model we employ requires a careful treatment of renormalization in the on‑shell scheme. This setup offers a flexible platform for assessing how CP‑violating Yukawa structures manifest in the spin and correlation patterns of the top–antitop system and for exploring the potential of quantum‑information–motivated observables in hadronic environments.

Author

Marcel I. Yanez

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