Helicity of the W boson in lepton +jets t ¯t events

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Helicity of the W boson in lepton +jets t ¯t events. / DO Collaboration, The; Bertram, Iain A.; Borissov, Guennadi V. et al.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 617, No. 1-2, 26.06.2005, p. 1-10.

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DO Collaboration, T, Bertram, IA , Borissov, GV , Ratoff, PN & Sopczak, A 2005, 'Helicity of the W boson in lepton +jets t ¯t events', Physics Letters B, vol. 617, no. 1-2, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.04.069

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DO Collaboration, T., Bertram, I. A., Borissov, G. V., Ratoff, P. N., & Sopczak, A. (2005). Helicity of the W boson in lepton +jets t ¯t events. Physics Letters B, 617(1-2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.04.069

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DO Collaboration T, Bertram IA , Borissov GV , Ratoff PN , Sopczak A. Helicity of the W boson in lepton +jets t ¯t events. Physics Letters B. 2005 Jun 26;617(1-2):1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.04.069

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DO Collaboration, The ; Bertram, Iain A. ; Borissov, Guennadi V. et al. / Helicity of the W boson in lepton +jets t ¯t events. In: Physics Letters B. 2005 ; Vol. 617, No. 1-2. pp. 1-10.

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abstract = "We examine properties of candidate events in lepton + jets final states to establish the helicities of W bosons in t→W+b decays. Our analysis is based on a direct calculation of a probability density for each event to correspond to a final state, as a function of the helicity of the W boson. Using the 125 events/pb of data collected by the D{\O} experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at , we obtain a longitudinal helicity fraction F0=0.56±0.31, consistent with the prediction of F0=0.70 from the standard model.",

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