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Measurement of the helicity of W bosons in top-quark decays

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
Publication date2006
Abstract

We measure the branching fraction of the top quark to longitudinally and right-handed polarized W bosons, F0 and F+, using approximately 200  pb−1 of pp collisions collected by the CDF II detector. We analyze two quantities sensitive to the W helicity: the invariant mass of the charged lepton and the bottom-quark jet in the decay t→Wb→ℓνb (where ℓ=e or μ), and the transverse momentum of the charged lepton. Constrained fits yield F0=0.74+0.22−0.34, and F+<0.27 at the 95% confidence level. These measurements are consistent with the standard model predictions.

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CDF Collaboration. Measurement of the helicity of <em>W</em> bosons in top-quark decays. In: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 2006, vol. 73, n° 11, p. 111103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.111103
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