Precision measurement of the ratio B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) and Extraction of Vtb
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2011-09-16Author
Wilson, Graham Wallace
Abazov, V. M.
Abbott, B.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, M.
Alexeev, G. D.
Alkhazov, G.
Alton, A.
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American Physical Society
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We present a measurement of the ratio of top quark branching fractions R=B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq), where q can be a d, s, or b quark, in the lepton+jets and dilepton tt¯ final states. The measurement uses data from 5.4 fb−1 of pp¯ collisions collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We measure R=0.90±0.04, and we extract the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element |Vtb| as |Vtb|=0.95±0.02, assuming unitarity of the 3×3 CKM matrix.
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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.121802.
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V. M. Abazov et al. "Precision Measurement of the Ratio B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) and Extraction of Vtb." Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 121802 – Published 15 September 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.121802.
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