Measurement of the ratio sigma B(pp-bar-->W-->e nu )/ sigma B(pp-bar-->Z0-->ee) in pp-bar collisions at sqrt s =1800 GeV. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 1995 The American Physical Society We present an analysis of data from p p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s =1800 GeV. A measurement is made of the ratio RB(p pWe)/B(p pZ0ee). The data represent 19.6 pg-1 collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 19921993 collider run of the Fermilab Tevatron. We find R=10.900.32(stat)0.29(syst), and from this value we extract a measurement of the We branching ratio (We)/(W)=0.10940.0033(stat)0.0031(syst). From this branching ratio we set a limit on the top quark mass of mt>62 GeV/c2 at the 95% confidence level. In contrast with direct searches for the top quark, this limit makes no assumptions about the allowed decay modes of the top quark. In addition, we use a calculation of the leptonic width (We) to obtain a value for the W total decay width: (W)=2.0640.060(stat)0.059(syst) GeV.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev D Part Fields

author list (cited authors)

  • Abe, F., Albrow, M. G., Amendolia, S. R., Amidei, D., Antos, J., Anway-Wiese, C., ... Cen, Y.

citation count

  • 43

complete list of authors

  • Abe, F||Albrow, MG||Amendolia, SR||Amidei, D||Antos, J||Anway-Wiese, C||Apollinari, G||Areti, H||Atac, M||Auchincloss, P||Azfar, F||Azzi, P||Bacchetta, N||Badgett, W||Bailey, MW||Bao, J||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Bartalini, P||Bauer, G||Baumann, T||Bedeschi, F||Behrends, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Benlloch, J||Bensinger, J||Benton, D||Beretvas, A||Berge, JP||Bertolucci, S||Bhatti, A||Biery, K||Binkley, M||Bird, F||Bisello, D||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bodek, A||Bokhari, W||Bolognesi, V||Bortoletto, D||Boswell, C||Boulos, T||Brandenburg, G||Bromberg, C||Buckley-Geer, E||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Byon-Wagner, A||Byrum, KL||Cammerata, J||Campagnari, C||Campbell, M||Caner, A||Carithers, W||Carlsmith, D||Castro, A||Cen, Y

publication date

  • September 1995