Measurement of the Helicity of \u3ci\u3eW\u3c/i\u3e Bosons in Top Quark Decays

  • Affolder, T.
  • Bloom, Kenneth A.
  • Fermilab Collaboration, Collider Detector at
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Publication date
January 2000
Publisher
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Language
English

Abstract

We use the transverse momentum spectrum of leptons in the decay chain t → bW with W → lν to measure the helicity of the W bosons in the top quark rest frame. Our measurement uses a tt̅ sample isolated in 106 ± 4 pb-1 of data collected in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV with the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Assuming a standard V-A weak decay, we find that the fraction of W’s with zero helicity in the top rest frame is F0 = 0.91 ± 0.37(stat)± 0.13(syst), consistent with the standard model prediction of F0= 0.70 for a top mass of 175 GeV/c2

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