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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 30: Elektroschwache Wechselwirkung 2

T 30.4: Talk

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 11:45–12:00, JUR 372

Measurement of Tau Polarization in Z Boson Decays at ATLAS — •Benedict Winter, William Davey, and Jochen Dingfelder — Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn

Decays of the Z boson in the Standard Model violate parity, leading to a net polarization of the decay products. Z boson decays to pairs of tau leptons provide a unique opportunity to measure the tau polarization by using the kinematics of the subsequent tau decays, hence testing the Standard Model predictions. They also provide a unique opportunity to pioneer experimental techniques that assess the tau helicity and may be used in searches for new particles and to study the Higgs boson.

In this talk the status of a measurement of the tau polarization in Z→ττ decays is presented. The analysis is based on the 20.3 fb⁻¹ collected at a center of mass energy of √s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment. The tau polarization is measured in events in which one tau decays leptonically and the other decays hadronically by using the kinematics of the hadronic decay.