Measurement of B(t --> Wb)/B(t--> Wq) at the collider detector at fermilab.
Academic Article
Overview
Research
Identity
Additional Document Info
Other
View All
Overview
abstract
We present a measurement of the ratio of top-quark branching fractions R = B(t --> Wb)/B(t --> Wq), where q can be a b, s, or a d quark, using lepton-plus-jets and dilepton data sets with an integrated luminosity of approximately 162 pb(-1) collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during Run II of the Tevatron. The measurement is derived from the relative numbers of tt events with different multiplicity of identified secondary vertices. We set a lower limit of R > 0.61 at 95% confidence level.
published proceedings
author list (cited authors)
Acosta, D., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., ... CDF Collaboration.
citation count
complete list of authors
Acosta, D||Adelman, J||Affolder, T||Akimoto, T||Albrow, MG||Ambrose, D||Amerio, S||Amidei, D||Anastassov, A||Anikeev, K||Annovi, A||Antos, J||Aoki, M||Apollinari, G||Arisawa, T||Arguin, J-F||Artikov, A||Ashmanskas, W||Attal, A||Azfar, F||Azzi-Bacchetta, P||Bacchetta, N||Bachacou, H||Badgett, W||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barker, GJ||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Baroiant, S||Bauer, G||Bedeschi, F||Behari, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Belloni, A||Ben-Haim, E||Benjamin, D||Beretvas, A||Berry, T||Bhatti, A||Binkley, M||Bisello, D||Bishai, M||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bloom, K||Blumenfeld, B||Bocci, A||Bodek, A||Bolla, G||Bolshov, A||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Bourov, S||Brau, B||Bromberg, C||Brubaker, E||Budagov, J||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Bussey, P||Byrum, KL||Cabrera, S||Campanelli, M||Campbell, M||Canelli, F||Canepa, A||Casarsa, M||Carlsmith, D||Carosi, R||Carron, S||Cavalli-Sforza, M||Castro, A||Catastini, P||Cauz, D||Cerri, A||Cerrito, L||Chapman, J||Chen, YC||Chertok, M||Chiarelli, G||Chlachidze, G||Chlebana, F||Cho, I||Cho, K||Chokheli, D||Chou, JP||Chuang, S||Chung, K||Chung, W-H||Chung, YS||Cijliak, M||Ciobanu, CI||Ciocci, MA||Clark, AG||Clark, D||Coca, M||Connolly, A||Convery, M||Conway, J||Cooper, B||Copic, K||Cordelli, M||Cortiana, G||Cranshaw, J||Cuevas, J||Cruz, A||Culbertson, R||Currat, C||Cyr, D||Dagenhart, D||Da Ronco, S||D'Auria, S||de Barbaro, P||De Cecco, S||Deisher, A||De Lentdecker, G||Dell'Orso, M||Demers, S||Demortier, L||Deninno, M||de Pedis, D||Derwent, PF||Dionisi, C||Dittmann, JR||DiTuro, P||Dörr, C||Dominguez, A||Donati, S||Donega, M||Donini, J||D'Onofrio, M||Dorigo, T||Ebina, K||Efron, J||Ehlers, J||Erbacher, R||Erdmann, M||Errede, D||Errede, S||Eusebi, R||Fang, H-C||Farrington, S||Fedorko, I||Fedorko, WT||Feild, RG||Feindt, M||Fernandez, JP||Field, RD||Flanagan, G||Flores-Castillo, LR||Foland, A||Forrester, S||Foster, GW||Franklin, M||Freeman, JC||Fujii, Y||Furic, I||Gajjar, A||Gallinaro, M||Galyardt, J||Garcia-Sciveres, M||Garfinkel, AF||Gay, C||Gerberich, H||Gerdes, DW||Gerchtein, E||Giagu, S||Giannetti, P||Gibson, A||Gibson, K||Ginsburg, C||Giolo, K||Giordani, M||Giunta, M||Giurgiu, G||Glagolev, V||Glenzinski, D||Gold, M||Goldschmidt, N||Goldstein, D||Goldstein, J||Gomez, G||Gomez-Ceballos, G||Goncharov, M||González, O||Gorelov, I||Goshaw, AT||Gotra, Y||Goulianos, K||Gresele, A||Griffiths, M||Grosso-Pilcher, C||Grundler, U||da Costa, J Guimaraes||Haber, C||Hahn, K||Hahn, SR||Halkiadakis, E||Hamilton, A||Han, B-Y||Handler, R||Happacher, F||Hara, K||Hare, M||Harr, RF||Harris, RM||Hartmann, F||Hatakeyama, K||Hauser, J||Hays, C||Hayward, H||Heinemann, B||Heinrich, J||Hennecke, M||Herndon, M||Hill, C||Hirschbuehl, D||Hocker, A||Hoffman, KD||Holloway, A||Hou, S||Houlden, MA||Huffman, BT||Huang, Y||Hughes, RE||Huston, J||Ikado, K||Incandela, J||Introzzi, G||Iori, M||Ishizawa, Y||Issever, C||Ivanov, A||Iwata, Y||Iyutin, B||James, E||Jang, D||Jayatilaka, B||Jeans, D||Jensen, H||Jeon, EJ||Jones, M||Joo, KK||Jun, SY||Junk, T||Kamon, T||Kang, J||Unel, M Karagoz||Karchin, PE||Kato, Y||Kemp, Y||Kephart, R||Kerzel, U||Khotilovich, V||Kilminster, B||Kim, DH||Kim, HS||Kim, JE||Kim, MJ||Kim, MS||Kim, SB||Kim, SH||Kim, YK||Kirby, M||Kirsch, L||Klimenko, S||Klute, M||Knuteson, B||Ko, BR||Kobayashi, H||Kong, DJ||Kondo, K||Konigsberg, J||Kordas, K||Korn, A||Korytov, A||Kotwal, AV||Kovalev, A||Kraus, J||Kravchenko, I||Kreymer, A||Kroll, J||Kruse, M||Krutelyov, V||Kuhlmann, SE||Kwang, S||Laasanen, AT||Lai, S||Lami, S||Lammel, S||Lancaster, M||Lander, R||Lannon, K||Lath, A||Latino, G||Lazzizzera, I||Lecci, C||Lecompte, T||Lee, J||Lee, J||Lee, SW||Lefèvre, R||Leonardo, N||Leone, S||Levy, S||Lewis, JD||Li, K||Lin, C||Lin, CS||Lindgren, M||Lipeles, E||Liss, TM||Lister, A||Litvintsev, DO||Liu, T||Liu, Y||Lockyer, NS||Loginov, A||Loreti, M||Loverre, P||Lu, R-S||Lucchesi, D||Lujan, P||Lukens, P||Lungu, G||Lyons, L||Lys, J||Lysak, R||Lytken, E||MacQueen, D||Madrak, R||Maeshima, K||Maksimovic, P||Manca, G||Margaroli, F||Marginean, R||Marino, C||Martin, A||Martin, M||Martin, V||Martínez, M||Maruyama, T||Matsunaga, H||Mattson, M||Mazzanti, P||McFarland, KS||McGivern, D||McIntyre, PM||McNamara, P||McNulty, R||Mehta, A||Menzemer, S||Menzione, A||Merkel, P||Mesropian, C||Messina, A||Miao, T||Miladinovic, N||Miles, J||Miller, L||Miller, R||Miller, JS||Mills, C||Miquel, R||Miscetti, S||Mitselmakher, G||Miyamoto, A||Moggi, N||Mohr, B||Moore, R||Morello, M||Fernandez, PA Movilla||Muelmenstaedt, J||Mukherjee, A||Mulhearn, M||Muller, T||Mumford, R||Munar, A||Murat, P||Nachtman, J||Nahn, S||Nakano, I||Napier, A||Napora, R||Naumov, D||Necula, V||Nelson, T||Neu, C||Neubauer, MS||Nielsen, J||Nigmanov, T||Nodulman, L||Norniella, O||Ogawa, T||Oh, SH||Oh, YD||Ohsugi, T||Okusawa, T||Oldeman, R||Orava, R||Orejudos, W||Osterberg, K||Pagliarone, C||Palencia, E||Paoletti, R||Papadimitriou, V||Paramonov, AA||Pashapour, S||Patrick, J||Pauletta, G||Paulini, M||Paus, C||Pellett, D||Penzo, A||Phillips, TJ||Piacentino, G||Piedra, J||Pitts, KT||Plager, C||Pondrom, L||Pope, G||Portell, X||Poukhov, O||Pounder, N||Prakoshyn, F||Pronko, A||Proudfoot, J||Ptohos, F||Punzi, G||Rademacker, J||Rahaman, MA||Rakitine, A||Rappoccio, S||Ratnikov, F||Ray, H||Reisert, B||Rekovic, V||Renton, P||Rescigno, M||Rimondi, F||Rinnert, K||Ristori, L||Robertson, WJ||Robson, A||Rodrigo, T||Rolli, S||Roser, R||Rossin, R||Rott, C||Russ, J||Rusu, V||Ruiz, A||Ryan, D||Saarikko, H||Sabik, S||Safonov, A||St Denis, R||Sakumoto, WK||Salamanna, G||Saltzberg, D||Sanchez, C||Santi, L||Sarkar, S||Sato, K||Savard, P||Savoy-Navarro, A||Schlabach, P||Schmidt, EE||Schmidt, MP||Schmitt, M||Schwarz, T||Scodellaro, L||Scott, AL||Scribano, A||Scuri, F||Sedov, A||Seidel, S||Seiya, Y||Semenov, A||Semeria, F||Sexton-Kennedy, L||Sfiligoi, I||Shapiro, MD||Shears, T||Shepard, PF||Sherman, D||Shimojima, M||Shochet, M||Shon, Y||Shreyber, I||Sidoti, A||Sill, A||Sinervo, P||Sisakyan, A||Sjolin, J||Skiba, A||Slaughter, AJ||Sliwa, K||Smirnov, D||Smith, JR||Snider, FD||Snihur, R||Soderberg, M||Soha, A||Somalwar, SV||Spalding, J||Spezziga, M||Spinella, F||Squillacioti, P||Stadie, H||Stanitzki, M||Stelzer, B||Stelzer-Chilton, O||Stentz, D||Strologas, J||Stuart, D||Suh, JS||Sukhanov, A||Sumorok, K||Sun, H||Suzuki, T||Taffard, A||Tafirout, R||Takano, H||Takashima, R||Takeuchi, Y||Takikawa, K||Tanaka, M||Tanaka, R||Tanimoto, N||Tecchio, M||Teng, PK||Terashi, K||Tesarek, RJ||Tether, S||Thom, J||Thompson, AS||Thomson, E||Tipton, P||Tiwari, V||Tkaczyk, S||Toback, D||Tollefson, K||Tomura, T||Tonelli, D||Tönnesmann, M||Torre, S||Torretta, D||Tourneur, S||Trischuk, W||Tsuchiya, R||Tsuno, S||Tsybychev, D||Turini, N||Ukegawa, F||Unverhau, T||Uozumi, S||Usynin, D||Vacavant, L||Vaiciulis, A||Varganov, A||Vejcik, S||Velev, G||Veszpremi, V||Veramendi, G||Vickey, T||Vidal, R||Vila, I||Vilar, R||Vollrath, I||Volobouev, I||von der Mey, M||Wagner, P||Wagner, RG||Wagner, RL||Wagner, W||Wallny, R||Walter, T||Wan, Z||Wang, MJ||Wang, SM||Warburton, A||Ward, B||Waschke, S||Waters, D||Watts, T||Weber, M||Wester, WC||Whitehouse, B||Whiteson, D||Wicklund, AB||Wicklund, E||Williams, HH||Wilson, P||Winer, BL||Wittich, P||Wolbers, S||Wolfe, C||Wolter, M||Worcester, M||Worm, S||Wright, T||Wu, X||Würthwein, F||Wyatt, A||Yagil, A||Yamashita, T||Yamamoto, K||Yamaoka, J||Yang, C||Yang, UK||Yao, W||Yeh, GP||Yoh, J||Yorita, K||Yoshida, T||Yu, I||Yu, S||Yun, JC||Zanello, L||Zanetti, A||Zaw, I||Zetti, F||Zhou, J||Zucchelli, S
publication date
publisher
published in
Research
keywords
51 Physical Sciences
5106 Nuclear And Plasma Physics
5107 Particle And High Energy Physics
Identity
PubMed Central ID
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/181534
Additional Document Info
Other
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.102002