Globally conformal invariant quantum field theories in a D-dimensional space-time (D even) have rational correlation functions and admit an infinite number of conserved (symmetric traceless) tensor currents. In a theory of a scalar field of dimension D-2 they were demonstrated to be generated by bilocal normal products of free massless scalar fields with an O(N), U(N), or Sp(2N) (global) gauge symmetry [B. Bakalov, N. M. Nikolov, K.-H. Rehren, and I. Todorov, “Unitary positive energy representations of scalar bilocal fields,” Commun. Math. Phys. 271, 223–246 (2007)10.1007/s00220-006-0182-2; e-print arXiv:math-ph/0604069v3; B. Bakalov, N. M. Nikolov, K.-H. Rehren, and I. Todorov, “Infinite dimensional Lie algebras in 4D conformal quantum field theory,” J. Phys. A Math Theor. 41, 194002 (2008)10.1088/1751-8113/41/19/194002; e-print arXiv:0711.0627v2 [hep-th]]. Recently, conformal field theories “with higher spin symmetry” were considered for D = 3 by Maldacena and Zhiboedov [“Constraining conformal field th...
L. Edelhäuser, Konstantin T. Matchev, Myeonghun Park
A bstractWe investigate spin correlation effects in the “antler” event topology pp → A(A*) → B1B2 → (ℓ−C1)(ℓ+C2) at the LHC. We study the shapes of several kinematic variables, including the relative pseudorapidity, relative azimuthal angle and the energies of the two leptons, as well as several mass variables Mℓℓ, Meff, $ \sqrt {{{{s}_{{\min }}}}} $, MT2, MCT and MCTx. We focus on the two kinematic extremes of $\sqrt{S}$ — threshold and infinity — and derive analytical expressions for the differential distributions of several variables, most notably the cos $\theta_{{\ell -\ell +}}^{*}$ variable proposed by Barr in hep-ph/0511115. For all possible spin assignments of particles A, B and C, we derive the cos $\theta_{{\ell -\ell +}}^{*}$ differential distribution at threshold, including the effects of spin correlations. Our analytical results help identify the problematic cases for spin discrimination.