1. Measurement of spin correlation in tt¯ production using dilepton final states
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L. S. Vertogradov, Daniel Duggan, S. Desai, Petr Vokac, J. Orduna, R. Bernhard, W. E. Cooper, Y. T. Tsai, N. Prokopenko, Sergey Burdin, Graham Wilson, M. Eads, A. S. Santos, L. S. Ancu, B. Calpas, S. P. Denisov, A. Jonckheere, J. Sekaric, Michael A. Strauss, A. Lobodenko, Arnaud Duperrin, Jong-Sung Yu, H. E. Fisk, Markus Wobisch, A. S. Ito, A. Melnitchouk, Chong-Yu Xu, Daria Zieminska, Vipin Bhatnagar, W. M. Lee, S. Beale, Michael Mulhearn, R. D. Schamberger, T. R. Wyatt, R. Partridge, A. Dubey, G. Grenier, Robert Hirosky, Aran Garcia-Bellido, V. V. Lipaev, P. Lebrun, Guennadi Borissov, I. Heredia-De La Cruz, Y. W. Liu, Kenneth Bloom, D. Brown, V. L. Malyshev, S. Kulikov, R. Magaña-Villalba, S. W. Cho, G. Obrant, Gianluca Petrillo, T. Scanlon, Guo-Ming Chen, S. Kermiche, Suman Bala Beri, V. Hynek, W. M. Van Leeuwen, Ketino Kaadze, D. Menezes, S. Chevalier-Théry, G. D. Alexeev, Flera Rizatdinova, I. Ripp-Baudot, A. Meyer, N. K. Mondal, D. Boline, H. T. Diehl, T. A. Bolton, R. Illingworth, U. Bassler, G. Gutierrez, Gilvan Alves, F. Badaud, Neeti Parashar, I. Razumov, A. Boehnlein, J. Ellison, S. Fuess, T. Kurca, M. Jaffré, Joseph Haley, Shabnam Jabeen, Zeno Dixon Greenwood, B. C.K. Casey, Todd Adams, G. Savage, Marc Weber, T. Nunnemann, B. Baldin, M. Merkin, Regina Demina, Suneel Dutt, P. Polozov, M. Zielinski, Jiping Zhu, J. Hays, Gavin Grant Hesketh, J. Lellouch, P. Verdier, Wade Cameron Fisher, Raymond Brock, V. Simak, Sabine Lammers, R. Beuselinck, Alexander Kupco, V. V. Tokmenin, G. Facini, H. A. Neal, D. Jamin, Grigory Safronov, S. Chakrabarti, D. Smirnov, A. Alton, Meng Wang, M. A. Carrasco-Lizarraga, V. A. Kuzmin, P. Rubinov, S. Uvarov, I. Katsanos, Marvin Johnson, M. Pangilinan, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Lyon, Pushpalatha C Bhat, K. Yip, N. Parua, D. Vilanova, Randy Ruchti, D. Edmunds, W. Geist, Mitchell Wayne, A. Evdokimov, H. Schellman, J. M. Kohli, J. Snow, K. J. Smith, K. Peters, J. F. Bartlett, J. M. Hauptman, R. Nayyar, Cecilia Elena Gerber, A. V. Kozelov, Robert Kehoe, M. Arov, Anthony Ross, B. Quinn, S. Cihangir, G. Ginther, Alexander Grohsjean, Anna Goussiou, L. Stutte, B. Hoeneisen, C. Schwanenberger, A.S. Dyshkant, Lee Sawyer, Alice Bean, Fabrice Couderc, Zhenyu Ye, Jiri Kvita, D. Gerbaudo, Stefan Grünendahl, Thibault Guillemin, Yuri Gershtein, B. Sanghi, Lev Uvarov, Sung Keun Park, Y. N. Kharzheev, Jean-Arcady Meyer, T. Schliephake, Jianming Qian, Victor Daniel Elvira, Andrew White, Dmitri Tsybychev, R. L. McCarthy, J. Joshi, Gregory R Snow, L. Zivkovic, A. Das, G. Otero y Garzon, P. Svoisky, E. Camacho-Pérez, M. Demarteau, L. Bagby, Volker Buescher, T. Gadfort, B. Tuchming, L. Welty-Rieger, P. Skubic, Liang Li, W. C. Yang, S. Söldner-Rembold, Maxim Perfilov, X. B. Bu, K. Devaughan, Reinhard Schwienhorst, A. Jayasinghe, Y. A. Yatsunenko, Lev Dudko, M. C. Cousinou, K. M. Chan, Philip Baringer, G. S. Muanza, Viatcheslav Stolin, J. Piper, S. Banerjee, Pedro G Mercadante, W. Geng, G. Alkhazov, D. V. Bandurin, Zdenek Hubacek, J. Brown, P. N. Ratoff, Y. Peters, D. Karmanov, David T. Johnston, M. Buehler, Mark Richard James Williams, P. M. Tuts, Maksym Titov, Arnulf Quadt, N. Khalatyan, S. Yacoob, Maria Elena Pol, L. Bellantoni, Sudhir Malik, Ia Iashvili, Brajesh C Choudhary, E. De La Cruz-Burelo, Konstantinos Petridis, Sharon Hagopian, Hang Yin, Elemer Nagy, Sergio F Novaes, George Alverson, V. E. Bazterra, Carlos Avila, P. D. Grannis, Y. Enari, A. K.A. Maciel, Andrew Brandt, E. E. Boos, P. A. Kasper, D. Wicke, D. Hedin, M. P. Sanders, Dennis Stephen Mackin, N. Osman, Yurii Maravin, Marc Besancon, Vladimir Gavrilov, Heriberto Castilla-Valdez, Gordon Watts, Q. Z. Li, V. Sirotenko, Kirti Ranjan, John Hobbs, A. Juste, Elizaveta Shabalina, Suyong Choi, Carsten Hensel, V. A. Bezzubov, J. Barreto, J. P. Negret, J. Clutter, Phillip Gutierrez, J. A. Parsons, J. Osta, R. Piegaia, A. Sanchez-Hernandez, R. Luna-Garcia, Marco Verzocchi, Theodoros Christoudias, Michael Hildreth, A. Patwa, P. Neustroev, F. Miconi, Oleg Brandt, Darren Price, S. Uzunyan, J. Martínez-Ortega, Andrew Askew, Bjoern Penning, C. Belanger-Champagne, Amnon Harel, Marcia Begalli, G. Golovanov, Meenakshi Narain, Harald Fox, D. Khatidze, V. M. Abazov, V. Shary, Zhanqiang Liu, M. Cooke, S. Greder, Iain Alexander Bertram, Michael Rijssenbeek, S. Zelitch, V. N. Evdokimov, M. Rominsky, N. Huske, T. Dorland, D. Denisov, G. Bernardi, Emanuela Barberis, Hal Evans, Thomas Ferbel, M. Padilla, M. Prewitt, Lars Sonnenschein, L. Suter, Maiko Takahashi, I. A. Vasilyev, Ashok Kumar, Tulika Bose, Wendy Taylor, V. Bunichev, B. S. Acharya, Christophe Royon, H. D. Wahl, M. M. Meijer, T. Yasuda, Aaron Dominguez, R. Jesik, M. Hohlfeld, K. A. Johns, O. Atramentov, V. M. Podstavkov, Kristian Harder, D. K. Cho, D. Cutts, M. Fortner, Greg Landsberg, K. Herner, A. Chandra, A. Croc, Ph Gris, M. H. Kirby, K. Soustruznik, P. Vint, G. C. Blazey, A. V. Popov, R. Yamada, Gustaaf Brooijmans, Jean-Francois Grivaz, Shih-Chang Lee, J. Warchol, M. Naimuddin, P. Jonsson, S. J. De Jong, A. Pal, Thomas Hebbeker, Mary Beth Adams, A. A. Shchukin, Frank Fiedler, E. Kajfasz, Nikos Varelas, Bing Zhou, R. K. Shivpuri, D. R. Claes, Gavin Davies, G. Sajot, R. Lopes De Sa, S. M. Lietti, Y. Scheglov, Kaushik De, M. S. Rangel, Jan Stark, Henry Lubatti, Horst Severini, J. Backusmayes, Martin Grunewald, Milos Lokajicek, Hakjae Lee, F. Guo, Richard B. Lipton, Darien Wood, C. P. Buszello, Yuehong Xie, S. Blessing, Scott Snyder, R. Van Kooten, M. D. Corcoran, L. Han, J. K. Lim, B. Åsman, Tiefu Zhao, A. P. Heinson, S. W. Youn, J. K. Kraus, P. L.M. Podesta-Lerma, M. A. Pleier, Brad Abbott, Pierre Petroff, H. Hegab, V. Parihar, P. Renkel, Avto Kharchilava, T. Hoang, Alexander Khanov, S. Schlobohm, H. Greenlee, D. M. Strom, A. Bross, Serban Protopopescu, M. Aoki, Andy Haas, D. Chakraborty, Don Lincoln, Erich Varnes, M. Vesterinen, R. Madar, Frederic Deliot, Christopher George Tully, Patrick Slattery, T. H. Burnett, Ulrich Heintz, Frank Filthaut, M. Diesburg, A. Tanasijczuk, P. Salcido, D. A. Stoyanova, C. L. McGivern, Michael Begel, Eduardo De Moraes Gregores, and T. Head
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Physics ,Quantum chromodynamics ,Quark ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Top quark ,Muon ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Tevatron ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Fermilab ,Center of mass ,010306 general physics ,Lepton - Abstract
We measure the correlation between the spin of the top quark and the spin of the anti-top quark in (ttbar -> W+ W- b bbar -> l+ nu b l- nubar bbar) final states produced in ppbar collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, where l is an electron or muon. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb-1 and were collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The correlation is extracted from the angles of the two leptons in the t and tbar rest frames, yielding a correlation strength C= 0.10^{+0.45}_{-0.45}, in agreement with the NLO QCD prediction within two standard deviations, but also in agreement with the no correlation hypothesis.
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- 2011