Measurement of tau polarization in W->tau nu decays with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

ATLAS COLLABORATION, G. AAD, F. MONTICELLI, ET AL

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C - PARTICLES AND FIELDS

SPRINGER

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2012 vol. 213 p. 1 - 23

1434-6044

In this paper, a measurement of tau polarization in W->taunu decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic tau decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 24 pb^-1, were collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2010. The measured value of the tau polarization is Ptau = -1.06 +/- 0.04 (stat) + 0.05 (syst) - 0.07 (syst), in agreement with the Standard Model prediction, and is consistent with a physically allowed 95% CL interval [-1,-0.91]. Measurements of tau polarization have not previously been made at hadron colliders.