Direct measurement of the total decay width of the top quark

We present a measurement of the total decay width of the top quark using events with top-antitop quark pair candidates reconstructed in the final state with one charged lepton and four or more hadronic jets. We use the full Tevatron run II data set of ?s=1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions recorde...

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Authors: Aaltonen, Timo Antero, Casal Laraña, Bruno, Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier, Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio|||0000-0002-1077-6553, Palencia Cortezón, José Enrique, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto|||0000-0002-3639-0368, Scodellaro, Luca|||0000-0002-4974-8330, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío|||0000-0003-2045-8054, Vizán García, Jesús Manuel|||0000-0002-6823-8854
Format: article
Publication Date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repository:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/28852
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/28852
Access Level:Open access
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Summary:We present a measurement of the total decay width of the top quark using events with top-antitop quark pair candidates reconstructed in the final state with one charged lepton and four or more hadronic jets. We use the full Tevatron run II data set of ?s=1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the CDF II detector. The top quark mass and the mass of the hadronically decaying W boson are reconstructed for each event and compared with distributions derived from simulated signal and background samples to extract the top quark width (?top) and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with in situ calibration. For a top quark mass M top=172.5 GeV/c2, we find 1.10<?top<4.05 GeV at 68% confidence level, which is in agreement with the standard model expectation of 1.3 GeV and is the most precise direct measurement of the top quark width to date.

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