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pp→W-c过程产生极化的夸克。 当极化在c-夸克强电子化中形成时,极化有望部分保留在Λc重子中。 我们认为,在大型强子对撞机的运行2中,ATLAS和CMS有可能测量W + c样本中的Λc极化。 这可能成为魅力夸克纵向极化的首次测量。 其结果将为理解碎裂中的极化转移提供独特的输入。 他们还将允许将相同的测量技术应用于先验未知的极化夸克的其他(例如新物理学)样本。 拟议的分析类似于在7 TeV运行中W + c截面的ATLAS和CMS测量,该测量使用重建的D介子衰变进行魅力标记。
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JHEP11(2016)011
Published for SISSA by Springer
Received: July 12, 2016
Revised: September 26, 2016
Accepted: October 25, 2016
Published: November 2, 2016
Measuring c-quark polarization in W +c samples at
ATLAS and CMS
Yevgeny Kats
1
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot 7610001, Israel
E-mail: yevgeny.kats@weizmann.ac.il
Abstract: The process pp → W
−
c produces polarized charm quarks. The polarization is
expected to be partly retained in Λ
c
baryons when those form in the c-quark hadronization.
We argue that it will likely be possible for ATLAS and CMS to measure the Λ
c
polarization
in the W +c samples in Run 2 of the LHC. This can become the first measurement ever
of a longitudinal polarization of charm quarks. Its results will provide a unique input to
the understanding of polarization transfer in fragmentation. They will also allow applying
the same measurement technique to other (e.g., new physics) samples of charm quarks in
which the polarization is a priori unknown. The proposed analysis is similar to the ATLAS
and CMS measurements of the W +c cross section in the 7 TeV run that used reconstructed
D-meson decays for charm tagging.
Keywords: Charm physics, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Heavy quark
production, Polarization, proton-proton scattering
ArXiv ePrint: 1512.00438
1
Present address: Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland. E-mail:
yevgeny.kats@cern.ch.
Open Access,
c
The Authors.
Article funded by SCOAP
3
.
doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2016)011
JHEP11(2016)011
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Overview of the theoretical picture 3
3 Λ
c
reconstruction 5
4 Λ
c
polarization measurement 8
5 Sensitivity estimate for Run 2 8
6 Comments on other possible strategies 11
7 Discussion 12
1 Introduction
The process
pp → W
−
c (1.1)
proceeds at leading order via the diagrams in figure 1 (see also [1, 2]).
1
Since the W couples
only to the left-handed quark fields, the charm quarks in the final state are polarized. In
this paper we argue that ATLAS and CMS can likely measure this polarization in Run 2
of the LHC.
While measurements of top-quark polarization are now standard [3–9], measuring the
polarization of all the other quarks is more challenging because they hadronize. It is,
however, possible. For a heavy quark, m
q
Λ
QCD
, an O(1) fraction of the quark polar-
ization is expected to be retained when its hadronization produces a baryon, which is most
commonly a Λ
b
in the b-quark case or a Λ
c
in the c-quark case [10–13]. The polarization
can then be determined from kinematic distributions of the baryon decay products. Evi-
dence of Λ
b
polarization has been seen in e
+
e
−
→ Z → b
¯
b events at LEP [14–16]. There
have been no analogous measurements for the Λ
c
. Even though the charm quark is not
as heavy as the bottom, it is reasonable to expect the Λ
c
to also carry polarization, since
the LEP experiments observed O(1) polarization retention even for the (strange-based) Λ
baryons [17–19].
Carrying out charm-quark polarization measurements in Standard Model samples at
the LHC is important for several reasons. First, establishing the measurement technique on
a Standard Model sample will allow applying it confidently to any new-physics sample that
will contain charm quarks. The polarization can in turn provide key information about
the new-physics Lagrangian. Importantly, as alluded to above, the c-quark polarization
1
Throughout the paper, the conjugate process pp → W
+
c is included implicitly. Its cross section is
slightly lower than that of pp → W
−
c, primarily because the valence quarks of the proton include a d but
not a
¯
d.
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JHEP11(2016)011
s
/
b
s
/
b
s
/
b
Figure 1. Leading-order diagrams for W +c production. The contribution with the s quark in the
initial state is an order-of-magnitude larger than the CKM-suppressed d-quark contribution, while
the b-quark contribution is entirely negligible.
fraction carried by the Λ
c
is currently unknown. Therefore, for a full interpretation of any
new-physics measurement, it would be useful to have this fraction extracted from a known
sample, such as W +c. Second, regardless of whether any new physics is discovered at
the LHC, the polarization measurements will advance our understanding of fragmentation.
There are various theoretical approaches that attempt to describe the polarization transfer
from a heavy quark to a baryon. Some parameterize the nonperturbative QCD physics in
terms of certain quantities that can be determined also by other types of measurements [12]
(see also [13]), as we will review, and others attempt to model it [20, 21]. These frameworks
will greatly benefit from experimental inputs.
The possibility of using Λ
c
decays for measuring charm-quark polarization in ATLAS
and CMS was first analyzed in [13]. It was shown there, that in Run 2 it would be possible
to do such measurements in pp → t
¯
t samples, where polarized charm quarks are produced
in W
+
→ c¯s decays. The process in eq. (1.1) might be even more promising than t
¯
t because
it provides an order-of-magnitude larger sample of charm quarks (although the background
is also larger).
A relatively clean sample of W+c events can be obtained by using the decays W → `ν
(where ` = e or µ) along with charm tagging. Such samples were used by ATLAS [22] and
CMS [23] in the 7 TeV run for measuring the W +c cross section. Similar measurements were
done by CDF [24–26] and D0 [27, 28] at the Tevatron and by LHCb [29]. The tagging of
charm quarks in these analyses was based on either a reconstructed multiprong D
+
or D
∗+
decay, or an inclusively defined displaced decay, or a soft muon from a semileptonic decay.
In the polarization measurement, one would instead use reconstructed decays of charmed
baryons, most importantly the Λ
+
c
, for tagging the charm and measuring its polarization.
While ATLAS and CMS have not yet reported any W +c analyses from the 8 or 13 TeV
runs, measurements of inclusive W production at 13 TeV [30, 31] show that the ATLAS
and CMS triggers still allow collecting the W → `ν decays without a significant decrease
in efficiency. It is therefore realistic to obtain large samples of W +c events in Run 2.
Measuring the Λ
c
polarization in W +c samples may also be possible at LHCb. While
LHCb’s luminosity and acceptance (and therefore statistics) are inferior relative to ATLAS
and CMS, its particle identification, vertexing ability and momentum resolution offer sig-
nificant advantages from the point of view of purity. This makes it plausible for an LHCb
measurement to be competitive with ATLAS and CMS [32]. However, it will not be pos-
sible for us to analyze a potential LHCb measurement in this work, as this would require
dedicated simulation tools, unlike in the case of ATLAS/CMS where we will be able to
build upon an existing analysis.
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