Published August 24, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of B(t->Wb)/B(t->Wq) at s=1.96TeV

  • 1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 2. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 (United States)
  • 3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (United States)

Description

We present the measurement of R=B(t->Wb)/B(t->Wq) in pp-bar collisions at s=1.96TeV, using 230 pb-1 of data collected by the DO experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We fit simultaneously R and the number (Ntt-bar ) of selected top quark pairs (tt-bar ), to the number of identified b-quark jets in events with one electron or one muon, three or more jets, and high transverse energy imbalance. To improve sensitivity, kinematical properties of events with no identified b-quark jets are included in the fit. We measure R=1.03-0.17+0.19(stat+syst), in good agreement with the standard model. We set lower limits of R>0.61 and vertical bar Vtb vertical bar>0.78 at 95% confidence level

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.07.019;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ex/0603002v1;
PII
S0370-2693(06)00887-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
639
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 616-622
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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