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
2018-02-24Source Title
European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsPublisher
SPRINGERUniversity 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; ...Affiliation
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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.Access Status
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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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