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Direct top-quark decay width measurement in the tt ¯ lepton+jets channel at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

Aaboud, M; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Abidi, SH; AbouZeid, OS; ... Aperio Bella, L; + view all (2018) Direct top-quark decay width measurement in the tt ¯ lepton+jets channel at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. European Physical Journal C , 78 (2) 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5595-5. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper presents a direct measurement of the decay width of the top quark using tt¯ events in the lepton+jets final state. The data sample was collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb - 1 . The decay width of the top quark is measured using a template fit to distributions of kinematic observables associated with the hadronically and semileptonically decaying top quarks. The result, Γt=1.76±0.33(stat.)-0.68+0.79(syst.)GeV for a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV, is consistent with the prediction of the Standard Model.

Type: Article
Title: Direct top-quark decay width measurement in the tt ¯ lepton+jets channel at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5595-5
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5595-5
Language: English
Additional information: © CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044332
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