Spin effects in the antler event topology at hadron colliders
arXiv:1205.2054 · doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2012)006
Abstract
We investigate spin correlation effects in the "antler" event topology pp-> A-> B1, B2 -> l^{-}, C1, l^{+}, C2 at the LHC. We study the shapes of several kinematic variables, including the relative pseudorapidity, relative azimuthal angle and the energies of the two leptons, as well as several mass variables M_{ll}, Meff, \sqrt{s}_{min}, MT2, MCT and MCTx. We focus on the two kinematic extremes of \sqrt{s} - threshold and infinity - and derive analytical expressions for the differential distributions of several variables, most notably the cos{θ_{ll}}^* variable proposed by Barr in hep-ph/0511115. For all possible spin assignments of particles A, B and C, we derive the cos{θ_{ll}}^* differential distribution at threshold, including the effects of spin correlations. Our analytical results help identify the problematic cases for spin discrimination.
43 pages, 14 figures, Preprint typeset in JHEP style
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