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T1 - Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays using 5.4 fb-1 of pp̅ collision data
AU - Bertram, Iain
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Williams, Mark
AU - Ratoff, Peter
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Sopczak, Andre
AU - Collaboration, D0
N1 - © 2011 American Physical Society
PY - 2011/2/18
Y1 - 2011/2/18
N2 - We present a measurement of the helicity of the W boson produced in top quark decays using tt̅ decays in the ℓ+jets and dilepton final states selected from a sample of 5.4 fb-1 of collisions recorded using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ collider. We measure the fractions of longitudinal and right-handed W bosons to be f0=0.669±0.102[±0.078(stat.)±0.065(syst.)] and f+=0.023±0.053[±0.041(stat.)±0.034(syst.)], respectively. This result is consistent at the 98% level with the standard model. A measurement with f0 fixed to the value from the standard model yields f+=0.010±0.037[±0.022(stat.)±0.030(syst.).].
AB - We present a measurement of the helicity of the W boson produced in top quark decays using tt̅ decays in the ℓ+jets and dilepton final states selected from a sample of 5.4 fb-1 of collisions recorded using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ collider. We measure the fractions of longitudinal and right-handed W bosons to be f0=0.669±0.102[±0.078(stat.)±0.065(syst.)] and f+=0.023±0.053[±0.041(stat.)±0.034(syst.)], respectively. This result is consistent at the 98% level with the standard model. A measurement with f0 fixed to the value from the standard model yields f+=0.010±0.037[±0.022(stat.)±0.030(syst.).].
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.032009
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.032009
M3 - Journal article
VL - 83
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 3
M1 - 032009
ER -