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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 84, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034008
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- US Department of Energy [DE-FG03-91ER40662, DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- European Research Council [ERC-AdG-228301]
- US LHC Theory Initiative through NSF [PHY-0705682]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [705682] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The production of W bosons in association with jets is an important background to new physics at the LHC. Events in which the W carries large transverse momentum and decays leptonically lead to large missing energy and are of particular importance. We show that the left-handed nature of the W coupling, combined with valence quark domination at a pp machine, leads to a large left-handed polarization for both W+ and W- bosons at large transverse momenta. The polarization fractions are very stable with respect to QCD corrections. The leptonic decay of the W-+/- bosons translates the common left-handed polarization into a strong asymmetry in transverse momentum distributions between positrons and electrons and between neutrinos and antineutrinos (missing transverse energy). Such asymmetries may provide an effective experimental handle on separating W + jets from top-quark production, which exhibits very little asymmetry due to C invariance, and from various types of new physics.
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