Direct top-quark decay width measurement in the t(t)over-bar lepton plus jets channel at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, S.H. Abidi, Ossama Sherif Alexander Abouzeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J. Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Y. AfikT. Agatonovic-Jovin, C. Agheorghiesei, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. P. Ahlen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, Mogens Dam, Milena Bajic, Geert-Jan Besjes, Peter Henrik Hansen, Stefania Xella, James William Monk, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Troels Christian Petersen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Simon Holm Stark, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Graig Wiglesworth, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Jørgen Beck Hansen

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number129
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume78
Issue number2
Number of pages30
ISSN1434-6044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2018

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