Direct Bound on the Total Decay Width of the Top Quark inpp¯Collisions ats=1.96  TeV

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doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.042001

Abstract

We present the first direct experimental bound on the total decay width of the top quark using 955pb^-1 of the Tevatron's ppbar collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We identify 253 top-antitop pair candidate events. The distribution of reconstructed top quark mass from these events is fitted to templates representing different values of the top quark width. Using a confidence interval based on likelihood ratio ordering, we extract an upper limit at 95% C.L. of Gamma_t <13.1 GeV for an assumed top quark mass of 175 GeV/c^2.

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