Measurements of the angular distributions of muons from Υ decays in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV.
Physical review letters 108:15 (2012) 151802
Authors:
T Aaltonen, B Álvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, D Bisello, I Bizjak, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, A Calamba, C Calancha, S Camarda, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, WH Chung, YS Chung, MA Ciocci, A Clark, C Clarke, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, N d'Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, M Deninno, F Devoto, M d'Errico, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, M Dorigo, T Dorigo, K Ebina, A Elagin, A Eppig, R Erbacher, S Errede, N Ershaidat, R Eusebi, S Farrington, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Funakoshi, I Furic, M Gallinaro, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamaguchi, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, RF Harr, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, J Heinrich, M Herndon, S Hewamanage, A Hocker, W Hopkins, D Horn, S Hou, RE Hughes, M Hurwitz, U Husemann, N Hussain, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, YJ Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, S Klimenko, K Knoepfel, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kuhr, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, E Lee, HS Lee, JS Lee, SW Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, C-J Lin, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, M Martínez, P Mastrandrea, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, MN Mondragon, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, S Pagan Griso, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, AA Paramonov, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, F Prokoshin, A Pranko, F Ptohos, G Punzi, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Rescigno, T Riddick, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, P Sinervo, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, A Soha, V Sorin, H Song, P Squillacioti, M Stancari, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, J Thome, GA Thompson, E Thomson, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, A Varganov, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, RL Wagner, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, F Wick, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration
Abstract:
The angular distributions of muons from Υ(1S,2S,3S) → μ+ μ- decays are measured using data from pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.7 fb(-1) and collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. This analysis is the first to report the full angular distributions as functions of transverse momentum p(T) for Υ mesons in both the Collins-Soper and s-channel helicity frames. This is also the first measurement of the spin alignment of Υ(3S) mesons. Within the kinematic range of Υ rapidity |y|<0.6 and p(T) up to 40 GeV/c, the angular distributions are found to be nearly isotropic.
