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Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays at D0

  • V. M. Abazov
  • , B. Abbott
  • , M. Abolins
  • , B. S. Acharya
  • , M. Adams
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  • , G. D. Alexeev
  • , G. Alkhazov
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  • , G. Alverson
  • , G. A. Alves
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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 tt̄ events in the +jets and dilepton decay channels corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 370pb-1 collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̄ Collider at s=1.96TeV. We reconstruct the decay angle θ* for each lepton. By comparing the cos θ* distribution from the data with that for the expected background and signal for various values of f+ (where we assume that the fraction of longitudinally-polarized W bosons has the standard model value of 0.70), we find f+=0.056±0.080(stat)±0.057(syst) (f+<0.23 at 95% C.L.), consistent with the standard model prediction of f+=3.6×10-4.

Original languageEnglish
Article number031102
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume75
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 5 2007

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