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Special supersymmetric features of large invariant mass unpolarized and polarized top-antitop production at the CERN LHC

M. Beccaria1,2, S. Bentvelsen3, M. Cobal4,5, F. M. Renard6, and C. Verzegnassi7,5

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Lecce, Via Arnesano, Lecce, Italy
  • 2INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
  • 3Nikhef, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 4Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Udine, V. delle Scienze 208, Udine, Italy
  • 5INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
  • 6Physique Mathématique et Théorique, UMR 5825, Université Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
  • 7Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Strada Costiera 14, Trieste, Italy

Phys. Rev. D 71, 073003 – Published 12 April, 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.073003

Abstract

We consider the top-anti-top invariant mass distributions for production of unpolarized and polarized top quark pairs at LHC, in the theoretical framework of the MSSM. Assuming a “moderately” light SUSY scenario, we derive the leading logarithmic electroweak contributions at one loop in a region of large invariant mass, Mtt¯1TeV, for the unpolarized differential cross section dσ/dMtt¯ and for the differential longitudinal top polarization asymmetry At(Mtt¯). We perform a realistic evaluation of the expected uncertainties of the two quantities, both from a theoretical and from an experimental point of view, and discuss the possibility of obtaining, from accurate measurements of the two mass distributions, stringent consistency tests of the model, in particular identifications of large tanβ effects.

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