New Method for Reconstructing Effective Top Quark Spin
Abstract
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We propose a new method for reconstructing an effective spin direction of a semi-leptonically decayed top quark. The method is simple: for instance, it does not require the spin information of the antitop quark in a ttbar event. The reconstructed effective spin is expected to be useful in hadron collider experiments. We demonstrate its usefulness in an analysis of the top decay vertex.
10 pages, 6 figures; one reference added; version to appear in Phys.Lett.B
10 pages, 6 figures; one reference added; version to appear in Phys.Lett.B