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Precision measurement of the ratio B(t -> Wb)/B(t -> Wq)

Authors :
D0 Collaboration
Abazov, V.
Source :
Phys.Rev.Lett.107:121802,2011
Publication Year :
2011

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 d, s or b quark, in the lepton+jets and dilepton ttbar final states. The measurement uses data from 5.4 fb-1 of ppbar collisions collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We measure R = 0.90 +/- 0.04, and we extract the CKM matrix element |Vtb| as |Vtb| = 0.95 +/- 0.02, assuming unitarity of the 3x3 CKM matrix.<br />Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., 7 pages

Subjects

Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Experiment

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Phys.Rev.Lett.107:121802,2011
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1106.5436
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.121802