Azimuthal angular correlation as a new boosted top jet substructure

Zhite Yu, C. -P. Yuan

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arXiv
2203.02760
Date
2022-03-05
Frontier
Energy Frontier (EF)
Topical groups
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Zhite Yu

Abstract

When a top quark is highly boosted, the W boson from its decay has a substantial linear polarization that results in a cos⁡2ϕ azimuthal angular correlation among the top decay products. We show that this correlation can be measured for hadronically decayed boosted tops, and its magnitude provides a way to measure the longitudinal polarization of top quark, which is an important probe of new physics that couples to top sector.