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Measurement of R = B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) in top-quark-pair decays using lepton+jets events and the full CDF run II dataset

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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Paus, Christoph M. E.
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Abstract
We present a measurement of the ratio of the top-quark branching fractions R=B(t→Wb)/ B(t→Wq), where q represents quarks of type b, s, or d, in the final state with a lepton and hadronic jets. The measurement uses √s=1.96  TeV proton-antiproton collision data from 8.7  fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during Run II of the Tevatron. We simultaneously measure R=0.94±0.09 (stat+syst) and the tt̅ production cross section σ[subscript tt̅] =7.5±1.0 (stat+syst)  pb. The magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element, |V[subscript tb]|=0.97±0.05 (stat+syst) is extracted assuming three generations of quarks, and a lower limit of |V[subscript tb]|>0.89 at 95% credibility level is set.
Date issued
2013-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80756
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Aaltonen, T., S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antos, G. Apollinari, et al. “Measurement of R=B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) in top-quark-pair decays using lepton+jets events and the full CDF run II dataset.” Physical Review D 87, no. 11 (June 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1550-2368

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