13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

Beyond Kinematics for Optimal Hadronic Top Quark Polarimetry I

15 May 2024, 17:00
15m
David Lawrence Hall 104 (University of Pittsburgh)

David Lawrence Hall 104

University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Alberto Navarro (Oklahoma State University)

Description

Spin correlations in top-quark pair production have been recently used to measure Entanglement at high energy. In this context, the semileptonic channel may play an important role due to its large cross section. However, the unambiguous identification of the hadronic top decay products that correlated the most with the top quark polarization is challenging. In this talk, we introduce and use jet flavor tagging to significantly improve spin analyzing power in hadronic decays beyond exclusive kinematic information employed in previous studies.

Author

Alberto Navarro (Oklahoma State University)

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