Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decay at
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Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:873853891 |
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Download or read book Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decay at written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a measurement of the fraction f+ of right-handed W bosons produced in top quark decays, based on a candidate sample of t{bar t} events in the l+jets and dilepton decay channels corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 370 pb−1 collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p{bar p} Collider at √s = 1.96 TeV. They reconstruct the decay angle [theta]* for each lepton. By comparing the cos[theta]* distribution from the data with those for the expected background and signal for various values of f+, they find f+ = 0.056 ± 0.080(stat) ± 0.057(syst). (f+