Direct Measurement of the Total Decay Width of the Top Quark

T Aaltonen,G Introzzi,G P Yeh,P Catastini,A Artikov,L Nodulman,D Lucchesi,T Tomura,M Dorigo,D Yamato,Y D Oh,S Y Jun,G Flanagan,T Bae,M J Morello,G Pauletta,K Tollefson,R Mcnulty,J Yoh,P K Teng,K Matera,F Canelli,C S Moon,K Potamianos,V Saveliev,A Mitra,S Uozumi,D J Cox,S Y Noh,L Brigliadori,A Mukherjee,F Rimondi,T Okusawa,G B Yu,O Norniella,F Devoto,S H Oh,S Errede,M Gold,B A Barnett,P E Karchin,N Giokaris,A Ruiz,W Parker,A Di Canto,T Miao,Y Kato,J Lys,P Giromini,W K Sakumoto,K K Joo,J Nett,D Stentz,A T Laasanen,F Ptohos,R Roser,A Loginov,M Kambeitz,S Lockwitz,J Conway,S Behari,P Marino,W Ketchum,R Forrest,K Takemasa,I Oksuzian,E Gramellini,C Bromberg,D Cauz,W Badgett,T Kuhr,G Chlachidze,A T Goshaw,M Kurata,M Datta,W C Wester,F Azfar,D Toback,P Murat,M Hare,C Neu,A B Wicklund,A Golossanov,P F Shepard,T Rodriguez,H S Budd,M Franklin,F Ruffini,A Mazzacane,P De Barbaro,J Asaadi,S Rolli,D Amidei,K Gibson,A Aurisano,K R Bland,T R Junk,A Elagin,B Carls,M J Kim,L Pondrom,C Mesropian,A Bodek,M Lancaster,H H Williams,F Happacher,D Glenzinski,S Wolbers,C Vellidis,D J Kong,S Leo,N Ranjan,M Corbo,M Vidal,F Vázquez,C Plager,C M Ginsburg,Y Sudo,G Volpi,M Stancari,S Torre,J P Fernández Ramos,T Wright,G Punzi,Q Liu,Y Seiya,A Pranko,P Lukens,C Pagliarone,I Shreyber-Tecker,D Torretta,D Mietlicki,J Vizán,M Hussein,R Culbertson,L Ortolan,M E Mattson,K Goulianos,J Budagov,S Donati,V Rusu,M Rescigno,Y Funakoshi,M Cordelli,S Carrillo,P Wilson,R St Denis,Y Zeng,C Grosso-Pilcher,J D Lewis,G Lungu,P Schlabach,E Palencia,U K Yang,B Esham,N Moggi,J Lueck,D Goldin,K Sliwa,G Busetto,F D Snider,S Zucchelli,V Thukral,S H Kim,A Boveia,S R Hahn,M Tecchio,P Mazzanti,H Gerberich,A Driutti,K Ebina,E James,M Mussini,B Auerbach,T J Phillips,G Manca,J Naganoma,A Bhatti,Y Takeuchi,E Thomson,T Nigmanov,H Miyake,S Amerio,L Santi,G Piacentino,A Napier,J A Appel,A Manousakis-Katsikakis,R Madrak,L Demortier,M Jones,M Shimojima,D Tonelli,J Huston,A Anastassov,J Keung,R Vilar,B Di Ruzza,G Velev,D Waters,P Garosi,A Semenov,E J Jeon,P Totaro,K Kondo,T Harrington-Taber,H Wolfe,D Chokheli,G Giurgiu,S Poprocki,Y Sakurai,W Ashmanskas,J Boudreau,E E Schmidt,D Cruz,C A Cox,T Yang,V Papadimitriou,R Orava,M Iori,E Gerchtein,S Giagu ,G Bellettini ,K Burkett ,P Bussey ,J R Smith ,H Liu ,C Zhou ,D Whiteson ,J Pilot ,S Leone ,K Sato ,J Dittmann ,B Kilminster ,T Liu ,A Lister ,F Margaroli ,U Husemann ,M D’errico ,A Savoy-Navarro ,M Vogel ,P Wittich ,A Cerri ,G Latino ,А Симоненко ,A Lucà ,А Суханов ,R C Edgar ,P Palni ,J Tang ,M Goncharov ,P Butti ,F Sforza ,J Guimarães Da Costa ,N Kimura ,L Ristori ,A Zanetti ,I Redondo ,A Beretvas ,S B Kim ,Y Nagai ,S Hou ,J Strologas ,R Wallny ,G Gómez-Ceballos ,L Oakes ,J S Lee ,Y K Kim ,M Kreps ,И Суслов ,H S Kim ,R Carosi ,M Cremonesi ,S Lammel ,E Brücken ,C Vernieri ,B L Winer ,R Erbacher ,Y J Kim ,V E Barnes ,Jonathan L Rosner ,P Wagner ,S Wilbur ,V Cavaliere ,N D’ascenzo ,K Yi ,E Lipeles ,A Bocci ,M J Shochet ,A Annovi ,S Tokár ,F Ukegawa ,T Arisawa ,S Moêd ,Th Müller ,J Kroll ,K Yorita ,O González López ,H Song ,J Han ,F Bedeschi ,X Wu ,H S Lee ,E Pianori ,K Lannon ,K Hatakeyama ,J Antos̆ ,F Prokoshin ,A Robson ,Z Hong ,A Calamba ,M Chertok ,Y C Chen ,S Grinstein ,P Bartoš ,B Casal ,P Renton ,K Pitts ,S M Wang ,S C Seidel ,R Harr ,J Russ ,V Sorı́n ,F Scuri ,R D Field ,C Galloni ,I Nakano ,J Nachtman ,M Herndon ,J Heinrich ,G Gómez ,T Kamon ,W H Hopkins ,J E Kim ,K Hara ,T Yoshida ,C Clarke ,A Mehta ,J Bellinger ,M Paulini ,A Kasmi ,M Casarsa ,D Carlsmith ,Y C Yang ,A F Garfinkel ,K Cho ,K Yamamoto ,S M Farrington ,H Frisch ,D W Jang ,I Yu ,L Marchese ,Z Wu ,A Ivanov ,B Jayatilaka ,C Paus ,J Freeman ,V Glagolev ,T Schwarz ,R Moore ,S Jindariani ,M Deninno ,P Lujan ,M Martı́nez ,M Trovato ,R Hughes ,I Gorelov ,J S Wilson ,A Barbaro‐Galtieri ,M D’onofrio ,K J Knoepfel ,A Clark ,W-M Yao ,L Scodellaro ,C P Hays ,M Cavalli‐Sforza ,S Shalhout ,M E Convery ,J Königsberg ,T Shears ,P Barria ,G Apollinari ,A Kotwal ,P Maestro ,D Bortoletto ,M Bauce ,L Cerrito ,S Malik ,B Blumenfeld ,M Campanelli ,A Castro ,J Cuevas ,M Kirby ,A Buzatu ,D Benjamin ,M Ronzani ,A Limosani ,R Lysák ,M Kruse ,S Camarda ,D H Kim ,V A Giakoumopoulou ,P Mehtälä ,G Chiarelli ,J Thom ,A Höcker

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.202001

Abstract

We present a measurement of the total decay width of the top quark using events with top-antitop quark pair candidates reconstructed in the final state with one charged lepton and four or more hadronic jets. We use the full Tevatron run II data set of sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the CDF II detector. The top quark mass and the mass of the hadronically decaying W boson are reconstructed for each event and compared with distributions derived from simulated signal and background samples to extract the top quark width (Γtop) and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with in situ calibration. For a top quark mass Mtop=172.5 GeV/c2, we find 1.10<Γtop<4.05 GeV at 68% confidence level, which is in agreement with the standard model expectation of 1.3 GeV and is the most precise direct measurement of the top quark width to date.

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