Decays of polarized top quarks to lepton, neutrino, and jets at NLO QCD
Decays of polarized top quarks to lepton, neutrino, and jets at NLO QCD
We compute the differential and total rate of the semileptonic decay of polarized top quarks $$t\rightarrow \ell \nu _\ell + b~\mathrm{jet} + \mathrm{jet}$$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the QCD coupling with an off-shell intermediate $$W$$ boson. We present several normalized distributions, in particular those that reflect the $$t$$ -spin …