First measurement of the ratio B(t → Wb)/B(t → Wq) and associated limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa element |Vtb|

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作者
Affolder, T [1 ]
Akimoto, H
Akopian, A
Albrow, MG
Amaral, P
Amendolia, SR
Amidei, D
Anikeev, K
Antos, J
Apollinari, G
Arisawa, T
Asakawa, T
Ashmanskas, W
Azfar, F
Azzi-Bacchetta, P
Bacchetta, N
Bailey, MW
Bailey, S
de Barbaro, P
Barbaro-Galtieri, A
Barnes, VE
Barnett, BA
Baroiant, S
Barone, M
Bauer, G
Bedeschi, F
Belforte, S
Bell, WH
Bellettini, G
Bellinger, J
Benjamin, D
Bensinger, J
Beretvas, A
Berge, JP
Berryhill, J
Bevensee, B
Bhatti, A
Binkley, M
Bisello, D
Bishai, M
Blair, RE
Blocker, C
Bloom, K
Blumenfeld, B
Blusk, SR
Bocci, A
Bodek, A
Bokhari, W
Bolla, G
Bonushkin, Y
机构
[1] Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[5] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[6] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[7] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[8] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[9] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[10] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[11] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[12] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[13] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Nazl Frascati Lab, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[15] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[16] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[17] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[18] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 724, Japan
[19] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[20] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[21] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[22] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[23] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[24] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[25] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Chem, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[26] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[27] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[28] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[29] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[30] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[31] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[32] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[33] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[34] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[35] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[36] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[37] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[38] Univ Pisa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[39] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[40] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[41] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[42] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[43] Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY 10021 USA
[44] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[45] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[46] Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
[47] Univ Trieste, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Udine, Italy
[48] Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[49] Tufts Univ, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[50] Waseda Univ, Tokyo 169, Japan
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3233
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present the first measurement of the ratio of branching fractions R equivalent to B(t --> Wb)/B(t --> Wq) from pa collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV. The data set corresponds to 109 pb(-1) of data recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1992-95 Tevatron run. We measure R = 0.94(-0.24)(+0.31)(stat + syst) or R > 0.61 (0.56) at 90% (95)% C.L., in agreement with the standard model predictions. This measurement yields a limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix element \V-tb\ under the assumption of three generations and unitarity.
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页码:3233 / 3238
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