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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)019
Keywords
QCD Phenomenology; Hadronic Colliders
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Funding
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
- JSPS [20340064]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20340064] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Angular correlation of jets produced in association with a massive scalar, vector or tensor boson is crucial in the determination of their spin and CP properties. We study jet angular correlations in events with a high mass bottom quark pair or a top quark pair and two jets at the LHC, whose cross-section is dominated by the virtual gluon fusion sub-processes when appropriate kinematic selection cuts (vector-boson fusion cuts) are applied. We evaluate helicity amplitudes for sub-processes initiated by qq, qg and gg collisions in the limit where the intermediate gluons are collinear to the initial partons. We first obtain a general expression for the azimuthal angle correlation's among the dijets and t (t) over bar or b (b) over bar, in ins of the gg -> t (t) over bar or b (b) over bar helicity amplitudes in the real gluon approximation of the full matrix elements, and find simple analytic expressions in the two kinematic limits, the production of a heavy quark pair near the threshold, and in the relativistic limit where the invariant mass of the heavy quark pair is much larger than the quark mass. For b (b) over bar + 2 jets we find strong azimuthal angle correlations which are distinct from those expected for events with a CP-even or odd scalar boson which may decay into a b (b) over bar pair. For t (t) over bar + 2 jets we find that the angular correlations are similar to that of a CP-odd scalar+2 jets near the threshold M-t (t) over bar similar to 2m(t), while in the relativistic limit they resemble the distribution for b (b) over bar + 2 jets. These correlations in the standard QCD processes will help establish the experimental technique to measure the spin and CP properties of new particles produced via gluon fusion at the LHC.
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