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Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at s√ = 8 TeV
dc.contributor.author | ATLAS Collaboration | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-01T14:08:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-01T14:08:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The ATLAS collaboration., Aad, G., Abbott, B. et al. Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at s√ = 8 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 51 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/33393 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the ATLAS-CMS Collaboration. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0). | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) | en_US |
dc.subject | Top physics | en_US |
dc.title | Combination of the W boson polarization measurements in top quark decays using ATLAS and CMS data at s√ = 8 TeV | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Bean, Alice Louise | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics & Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)051 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |