Abstract:We investigate spin correlation effects in the "antler" event topology pp → A(A * ) → B 1 B 2 → (ℓ − C 1 )(ℓ + C 2 ) 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 M ℓℓ , M eff , √ s min , M T 2 , M CT and M CTx . We focus on the two kinematic extremes of √ s -threshold and infinity -and derive analytical expressions for the differential distributions of several variables, most notably the cos θ * ℓ − ℓ + variable proposed by Barr in hep-ph/0511115. For all possible spin assignments of particles A, B and C, we derive the cos θ * ℓ − ℓ + differential distribution at threshold, including the effects of spin correlations. Our analytical results help identify the problematic cases for spin discrimination.