@Article{ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2018, author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al and Alvarez Piqueras, D. and Barranco Navarro, L. and Cabrera Urban, S. and Castillo Gimenez, V. and Cerda Alberich, L. and Costa, M. J. and Escobar, C. and Estrada Pastor, O. and Fernandez Martinez, P. and Ferrer, A. and Fiorini, L. and Fuster, J. and Garcia, C. and Garcia Navarro, J. E. and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. and Higon-Rodriguez, E. and Jimenez Pena, J. and Lacasta, C. and Madaffari, D. and Mamuzic, J. and Marti-Garcia, S. and Melini, D. and Mitsou, V. A. and Pedraza Lopez, S. and Rodriguez Bosca, S. and Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. and Romero Adam, E. and Salt, J. and Sanchez Martinez, V. and Soldevila, U. and Sanchez, J. and Valero, A. and Valls Ferrer, J. A. and Vos, M.", title="Measurement of tau polarisation in Z/gamma* -> tau tau decays in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector", journal="European Physical Journal C", year="2018", publisher="Springer", volume="78", number="2", pages="163--30pp", abstract="This paper presents a measurement of the polarisation of tau leptons produced in Z/gamma* -> tau tau decays which is performed with a dataset of proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb(-1) recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012. The Z/gamma* -> tau tau decays are reconstructed from a hadronically decaying tau lepton with a single charged particle in the final state, accompanied by a tau lepton that decays leptonically. The tau polarisation is inferred from the relative fraction of energy carried by charged and neutral hadrons in the hadronic tau decays. The polarisation is measured in a fiducial region that corresponds to the kinematic region accessible to this analysis. The tau polarisation extracted over the full phase space within the Z/gamma* mass range of 66 < mZ/gamma* < 116GeVis found to be P-tau = -0.14 +/- 0.02(stat)+/- 0.04(syst). It is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of Pt = -0.1517 +/- 0.0019, which is obtained from the ALP-GEN event generator interfaced with the PYTHIA 6 parton shower modelling and the TAUOLA tau decay library.", optnote="WOS:000426484600001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3509), last updated on Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:41:20 +0000", issn="1434-6044", doi="10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5619-1", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03490", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5619-1", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1709.03490", language="English" }