Measurement of the W-boson helicity in top-quark decays from t[overline t] production in lepton+jets events in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV
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CMS Collaboration; Apyan, Aram; Bauer, Gerry P; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Levin, Amy Elizabeth; Luckey Jr, P David; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stephans, George S. F.; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wolf, Roger; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Ming; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Wyslouch, Victoria; Chan, M.; Kim, Y.; ... Show more Show less
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The W-boson helicity fractions in top-quark decays are measured with tt̄ events in the lepton+jets final state, using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV, collected in 2011 with the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb [superscript -1]. The measured fractions of longitudinal, left-, and right-handed helicity are F0 = 0:682±0:030 (stat.)± 0:033 (syst.), F= 0:310 ±0:022 (stat.)± 0:022 (syst.), and F= 0:008± 0:012 (stat.) ± 0:014 (syst.), consistent with the standard model predictions. The measured fractions are used to probe the existence of anomalous Wtb couplings. Exclusion limits on the real components of the anomalous couplings gL; gR are also derived. Keywords: Hadron-Hadron Scattering; Top physics
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2013-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Chatrchyan, S. et al. “Measurement of the W-boson helicity in top-quark decays from t[overline t] production in lepton+jets events in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2013, 10 (October 2013): 167 © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration
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1029-8479