Direct Top-Quark Width Measurement at CDF


Autoria(s): Aaltonen, Timo; Brücken, Erik; Devoto, Francesco; Mehtälä, Petteri; Orava, Risto; CDF Collaboration
Contribuinte(s)

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics

University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

University of Helsinki, Department of Physics

Data(s)

03/12/2010

Resumo

We present a measurement of the top-quark width using $t\bar{t}$ events produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron collider and collected by the CDF II detector. In the mode where the top quark decays to a $W$ boson and a bottom quark, we select events in which one $W$ decays leptonically and the other hadronically~(lepton + jets channel) . From a data sample corresponding to 4.3~fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, we identify 756 candidate events. The top-quark mass and the mass of $W$ boson that decays hadronically are reconstructed for each event and compared with templates of different top-quark widths~($\Gamma_t$) and deviations from nominal jet energy scale~($\Delta_{JES}$) to perform a simultaneous fit for both parameters, where $\Delta_{JES}$ is used for the {\it in situ} calibration of the jet energy scale. By applying a Feldman-Cousins approach, we establish an upper limit at 95$\%$ confidence level~(CL) of $\Gamma_t $

Formato

7

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10138/24077

0031-9007

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

American Institute of Physics

Relação

Physical Review Letters

Fonte

Aaltonen , T , Brücken , E , Devoto , F , Mehtälä , P , Orava , R & CDF Collaboration 2010 , ' Direct Top-Quark Width Measurement at CDF ' Physical Review Letters , vol 105 , no. 23 , pp. 232003 . , 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.232003

Palavras-Chave #114 Physical sciences
Tipo

A1 Refereed journal article

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