Maximizing spin correlations in top quark pair production at the Tevatron

A comparison is made between the off-diagonal and helicity spin bases for top quark pair production at the FNAL Tevatron. In the off-diagonal basis, 92% of the top quark pairs are in the spin configuration up-down plus down-up, whereas in the helicity basis only 70% are left-right plus right-left. The off-diagonal basis maximizes the spin asymmetry and hence the measured angular correlations between the decay products, which are more than twice as big in this basis as compared to the helicity basis. In addition, for the process q qbar --> t tbar, we give a very simple analytic expression for the matrix element squared which includes all spin correlations between the production and subsequent decay of the top quarks.

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15 pages, revtex. 4 Postscript figures (included)

anti-p p: annihilation
top: pair production
top
polarization
spin: correlation
helicity
spin: density matrix
top: decay
differential cross section: interference
mass spectrum: (quark antiquark)

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