Energy spectrum of bottom- and charmed-flavored mesons from polarized top quark decay $t(\uparrow )\to W^{+}+B/D+X$ at $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s)$

Abstract

We consider the decay of a polarized top quark into a stable $W^{+}$ boson and charmed-flavored (D) or bottom-flavored (B) hadrons, via $t(\uparrow )\to W^{+}+D/B+X$. We study the angular distribution of the scaled-energy of B/D-hadrons at next-to-leading order (NLO) considering the contribution of bottom and gluon fragmentations into the heavy mesons B and D. To obtain the energy spectrum of B/D-hadrons we present our analytical expressions for the parton-level differential decay widths of $t(\uparrow )\to b+W^{+}(+g)$ at NLO. Comparison of our predictions with data at the LHC enable us to test the universality and scaling violations of the B- and D-hadron fragmentation functions (FFs). These can also be used to determine the polarization states of top quarks and since the energy distributions depend on the ratio $m_W/m_t$ we advocate the use of such angular decay measurements for the determination of the top quark's mass.

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