Study of top quark production and decays involving a tau lepton at CDF and limits on a charged Higgs boson contribution
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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Paus, Christoph M. E.
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We present an analysis of top-antitop quark production and decay into a tau lepton, tau neutrino, and bottom quark using data from 9 fb[superscript −1] of integrated luminosity at the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Dilepton events, where one lepton is an energetic electron or muon and the other a hadronically decaying tau lepton, originating from proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, are used. A top-antitop quark production cross section of 8.1 ± 2.1 pb is measured, assuming standard-model top quark decays. By separately identifying for the first time the single-tau and the ditau components, we measure the branching fraction of the top quark into the tau lepton, tau neutrino, and bottom quark to be (9.6 ± 2.8)%. The branching fraction of top quark decays into a charged Higgs boson and a bottom quark, which would imply violation of lepton universality, is limited to be less than 5.9% at a 95% confidence level [for B(H[superscript −] → τ[bar over ν]) = 1].
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2014-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Aaltonen, T., S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antos, G. Apollinari, et al. “Study of Top Quark Production and Decays Involving a Tau Lepton at CDF and Limits on a Charged Higgs Boson Contribution.” Phys. Rev. D 89, no. 9 (May 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1550-2368