Effects of unparticle on top spin correlation at the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

We study effects of the scale invariant hidden sector, unparticle, proposed by Georgi, on top spin correlation at the Large Hadron Collider. Assuming no flavor changing interaction between the unparticles and the Standard Model particles, there arises the top-antitop quark pair production process through virtual unparticle exchanges in the s-channel in addition to the Standard Model processes. In particular, we consider contributions of scalar and vector unparticles and find that these make sizable deviations of the top spin correlation from the Standard Model one.

Comments: 29 pages, 1 table, 12 figures, 2 figures added, typos in captions corrected, version accepted for publication in PRD