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Breaking down the entireWboson spin observables from its decay

Juan Antonio Aguilar SaavedraJose Bernabeu

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PhysicsTop quarkParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsPhysics beyond the Standard ModelFOS: Physical sciencesObservableScalar boson01 natural sciencesHigh Energy Physics - Experimentlaw.inventionNuclear physicsHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)law0103 physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentTensor010306 general physicsColliderSpin-½Boson

description

We discuss the eight independent spin observables for the $W$ boson in terms of its vector and tensor polarizations and identify the angular distributions and asymmetries able to separate them in collider experiments. The results are applied to the study of polarized top quark decays and diboson resonances. These novel observables are of great value for disentangling new physics mechanisms in $W$ boson production.

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.011301