Document Type
Article
Abstract
We present an improved determination of the total width of the top quark, Γt, using 5.4 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 Collaboration at the Tevatron pp- Collider. The total width Γt is extracted from the partial decay width Γ(t →Wb) and the branching fraction Β(t → Wb). Γ(t → Wb) is obtained from the t-channel single top-quark production cross section and Β(t → Wb) is measured in tt- events. For a top mass of 172.5 GeV, the resulting width is Γt = 2.00 +0:47 - 0:43 GeV. This translates to a top-quark lifetime of τt = (3.29 +0:90 -0.63) x 10-25s. We also extract an improved direct limit on the Cabibbo- Kobayashi-Maskawa quark-mixing matrix element 0.81 < │Vtb│ ≤ 1 at 95% C.L. and a limit of │Vtb ‘│< 0.59 for a high-mass fourth-generation bottom quark assuming unitarity of the fourth-generation quark-mixing matrix.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.091104
Publication Date
5-1-2012
Recommended Citation
Improved determination of the width of the top quark. V.M. Abazov et al. [D0 Collaboration]. PhysRevD 85 091104 (2012)
Original Citation
Improved determination of the width of the top quark. V.M. Abazov et al. [D0 Collaboration]. PhysRevD 85 091104 (2012)
Department
Department of Physics
Legacy Department
Department of Physics
Sponsorship
We thank the staffs at Fermilab and collaborating institutions, and acknowledge support from the DOE and NSF (USA); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); FASI, Rosatom, and RFBR (Russia); CNPq, FAPERJ, FAPESP, and FUNDUNESP (Brazil); DAE and DST (India); Colciencias (Colombia); CONACyT (Mexico); NRF (Korea); CONICET and UBACyT (Argentina); FOM (The Netherlands); STFC and the Royal Society (United Kingdom); MSMT and GACR (Czech Republic); BMBF and DFG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); The Swedish Research Council (Sweden); and CAS and CNSF (China).
ISSN
1550-7998
Language
eng
Publisher
American Physical Society
Comments
D0 Collaboration