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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 042001 (2009) [7 pages]

Direct Bound on the Total Decay Width of the Top Quark in pp̅ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 15 August 2008; published 28 January 2009

We present the first direct experimental bound on the total decay width of the top quark, Γt, using 955  pb-1 of the Tevatron’s pp̅ 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 Γt<13.1  GeV for an assumed top quark mass of 175  GeV/c2.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.042001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.042001
PACS:
14.65.Ha, 13.85.Qk, 12.15.Ff