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dc.contributor.authorCMS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-25T20:14:02Z
dc.date.available2017-09-25T20:14:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-11
dc.identifier.citationCMS Collaboration, Measurement of the W boson helicity fractions in the decays of top quark √ pairs to lepton + jets final states produced in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV. Physics Letters B, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.007en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25027
dc.description.abstractThe W boson helicity fractions from top quark decays in tt events are measured using data from proton– proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data were collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.8 fb−1. Events are reconstructed with either one muon or one electron, along with four jets in the final state, with two of the jets being identified as originating from b quarks. The measured helicity fractions from both channels are combined, yielding F0 = 0.681 ± 0.012 (stat) ± 0.023 (syst), FL = 0.323 ± 0.008 (stat) ± 0.014 (syst), and FR = −0.004 ± 0.005 (stat) ± 0.014 (syst) for the longitudinal, left-, and right-handed components of the helicity, respectively. These measurements of the W boson helicity fractions are the most accurate to date and they agree with the predictions from the standard model.en_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2016 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectCMSen_US
dc.subjectPhysicsen_US
dc.subjectTopen_US
dc.subjectAnomalous couplingsen_US
dc.subjectHelicityen_US
dc.titleMeasurement of the W boson helicity fractions in the decays of top quark √ pairs to lepton + jets final states produced in pp collisions at s = 8 TeVen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorTapia Takaki, Daniel
kusw.kudepartmentPhysics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.007en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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© 2016 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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