Improved determination of the width of the top quark
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
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30/09/2013
20/05/2014
30/09/2013
20/05/2014
04/05/2012
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Resumo |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) We present an improved determination of the total width of the top quark, Gamma(t), using 5.4 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 Collaboration at the Tevatron p (p) over bar Collider. The total width Gamma(t) is extracted from the partial decay width Gamma(t -> Wb) and the branching fraction B(t -> Wb). Gamma(t -> Wb) is obtained from the t-channel single top-quark production cross section and B(t -> Wb) is measured in t (t) over bar events. For a top mass of 172.5 GeV, the resulting width is Gamma(t) = 2.00(-0.43)(+0.47) GeV. This translates to a top-quark lifetime of tau(t) = (3.29(-0.63)(+0.90)) x 10(-25) s. We also extract an improved direct limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark-mixing matrix element 0.81 < vertical bar V-tb vertical bar <= 1 at 95% C.L. and a limit of vertical bar V-tb'vertical bar < 0.59 for a high-mass fourth-generation bottom quark assuming unitarity of the fourth-generation quark-mixing matrix. |
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8 |
Identificador |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.091104 Physical Review D. College Pk: Amer Physical Soc, v. 85, n. 9, p. 8, 2012. 1550-7998 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/24638 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.091104 WOS:000303659200003 WOS000303659200003.pdf |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Amer Physical Soc |
Relação |
Physical Review D |
Direitos |
closedAccess |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |