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    Measurement of tau polarisation in Z/gamma* -> tau tau decays in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Aaboudd, M; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Abidi, SH; AbouZeid, OS; Abraham, NL; Abrainowicz, H; Abreu, H; ...
    Date
    2018-02-24
    Source Title
    European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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    SPRINGER
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Taylor, Geoffrey; Nuti, Francesco; Barberio, Luigia; Kubota, Takashi; Rados, Pere; Brennan, Amelia; Milesi, Marco; Scutti, Federico; Ungaro, Francesca Consiglia; Urquijo, Phillip; ...
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    School of Physics
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    Journal Article
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    Aaboudd, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, N. L., Abrainowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczykh, L., Adelmanlm, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A. ,... Zwalinski, L. (2018). Measurement of tau polarisation in Z/gamma* -> tau tau decays in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 78 (2), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5619-1.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/253334
    DOI
    10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5619-1
    Abstract
    This paper presents a measurement of the polarisation of τ leptons produced in Z / γ ∗ → τ τ decays which is performed with a dataset of proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb - 1 recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012. The Z / γ ∗ → τ τ decays are reconstructed from a hadronically decaying τ lepton with a single charged particle in the final state, accompanied by a τ lepton that decays leptonically. The τ polarisation is inferred from the relative fraction of energy carried by charged and neutral hadrons in the hadronic τ decays. The polarisation is measured in a fiducial region that corresponds to the kinematic region accessible to this analysis. The τ polarisation extracted over the full phase space within the Z / γ ∗ mass range of 66 < m Z / γ ∗ < 116 GeV is found to be P τ = - 0.14 ± 0.02 ( stat ) ± 0.04 ( syst ) . It is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of P τ = - 0.1517 ± 0.0019 , which is obtained from the ALPGEN event generator interfaced with the PYTHIA 6 parton shower modelling and the TAUOLA τ decay library.

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