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Search for right-handed W bosons in top quark decay
dc.contributor.author | Baringer, Philip S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bean, Alice | |
dc.contributor.author | Christofek, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Coppage, Don | |
dc.contributor.author | Gardner, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hensel, Carsten | |
dc.contributor.author | Jabeen, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Graham Wallace | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-23T18:34:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-23T18:34:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-07-29 | |
dc.identifier.citation | V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2005). "Search for right-handed W bosons in top quark decay." Physical Review D, 72(1):011104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.011104. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1550-7998 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15377 | |
dc.description | This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.011104. | |
dc.description.abstract | We present a measurement of the fraction f(+) of right-handed W bosons produced in top quark decays, based on a candidate sample of tt-bar events in the lepton+jets decay mode. These data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 230 pb(−1), collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp-bar Collider at s√=1.96 TeV. We use a constrained fit to reconstruct the kinematics of the tt-bar and decay products, which allows for the measurement of the leptonic decay angle θ∗ for each event. By comparing the cosθ∗ distribution from the data with those for the expected background and signal for various values of f(+), we find f(+(=0.00±0.13(stat)±0.07(syst). This measurement is consistent with the standard model prediction of f(+)=3.6×10(−4). | |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dc.title | Search for right-handed W bosons in top quark decay | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Baringer, Philip S. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Bean, Alice | |
kusw.kuauthor | Christofek, L. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Coppage, Don | |
kusw.kuauthor | Gardner, J. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Hensel, Carsten | |
kusw.kuauthor | Jabeen, S. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Wilson, Graham Wallace | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.011104 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |