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Determination of the width of the top quark

  • V. M. Abazov
  • , B. Abbott
  • , M. Abolins
  • , B. S. Acharya
  • , M. Adams
  • , T. Adams
  • , G. D. Alexeev
  • , G. Alkhazov
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  • , M. Aoki
  • , Y. Arnoud
  • , M. Arov
  • , A. Askew
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Abstract

We extract the total width of the top quark, Γt, from the partial decay width Γ(t→Wb) measured using the t-channel cross section for single top-quark production and from the branching fraction B(t→Wb) measured in tt̄ events using up to 2.3fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 Collaboration at the Tevatron pp̄ Collider. The result is Γt=1.99-0.55+0.69GeV, which translates to a top-quark lifetime of τt=(3.3-0.9+1.3)×10 -25s. Assuming a high mass fourth generation b′ quark and unitarity of the four-generation quark-mixing matrix, we set the first upper limit on |Vtb′|<0.63 at 95% C.L.

Original languageEnglish
Article number022001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume106
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jan 2011
Externally publishedYes

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