Search for flavor changing neutral currents in decays of top quarks

被引:44
作者
Abazov, V. M. [1 ]
Abbott, B. [78 ]
Acharya, B. S. [32 ]
Adams, M. [54 ]
Adams, T. [52 ]
Alexeev, G. D. [1 ]
Alkhazov, G. [42 ]
Alton, A. [66 ]
Alverson, G. [65 ]
Alves, G. A. [3 ]
Ancu, L. S. [38 ]
Aoki, M. [53 ]
Arov, M. [63 ]
Askew, A. [52 ]
Asman, B. [45 ,46 ]
Atramentov, O. [70 ]
Avila, C. [10 ]
BackusMayes, J. [85 ]
Badaud, F. [14 ]
Bagby, L. [53 ]
Baldin, B. [53 ]
Bandurin, D. V. [52 ]
Banerjee, S. [32 ]
Barberis, E. [65 ]
Baringer, P. [61 ]
Barreto, J. [4 ]
Bartlett, J. F. [53 ]
Bassler, U. [20 ]
Bazterra, V. [54 ]
Beale, S. [7 ,8 ]
Bean, A. [61 ]
Begalli, M. [4 ]
Begel, M. [76 ]
Belanger-Champagne, C. [45 ,46 ]
Bellantoni, L. [53 ]
Beri, S. B. [30 ]
Bernardi, G. [18 ,19 ]
Bernhard, R. [25 ]
Bertram, I. [47 ]
Besancon, M. [20 ]
Beuselinck, R. [48 ]
Bezzubov, V. A. [41 ]
Bhat, P. C. [53 ]
Bhatnagar, V. [30 ]
Blazey, G. [55 ]
Blessing, S. [52 ]
Bloom, K. [69 ]
Boehnlein, A. [53 ]
Boline, D. [75 ]
Bolton, T. A. [62 ]
机构
[1] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, BR-20550011 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Univ Fed ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
[6] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01405 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[7] York Univ, Toronto, ON M3J 2R7, Canada
[8] Simon Fraser Univ, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[9] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[10] Univ los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[11] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[12] Czech Tech Univ, CR-16635 Prague, Czech Republic
[13] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[14] Univ Blaise Pascal, LPC, CNRS, IN2P3, Clermont, France
[15] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, LPSC, Inst Natl Polytech Grenoble,IN2P3, Grenoble, France
[16] Univ Aix Marseille 1, CPPM, CNRS, IN2P3, Marseille, France
[17] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL, F-91405 Orsay, France
[18] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, Paris, France
[19] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, IN2P3, Paris, France
[20] SPP, CEA, Saclay, France
[21] Univ Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
[22] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[23] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, IPNL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[24] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A 1, Aachen, Germany
[25] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[26] Univ Gottingen, Inst Phys 2, Gottingen, Germany
[27] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-6500 Mainz, Germany
[28] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[29] Berg Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, Wuppertal, Germany
[30] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[31] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[32] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[33] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
[34] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[35] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[36] FOM Inst NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[37] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[38] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[39] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[40] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[41] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[42] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[43] ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
[44] IFAE, Barcelona, Spain
[45] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[46] Stockholm Univ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[47] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YB, England
[48] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2AZ, England
[49] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[50] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
Tevatron; D0; Top quark; Flavor changing neutral current; P(P)OVER-BAR COLLISIONS; ROOT-S; COUPLINGS;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.06.014
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a search for flavor changing neutral currents in decays of top quarks. The analysis is based on a search for t (t) over bar -> l'vl (l) over bar + jets (l, l' = e. mu) final states using 4.1 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity of p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV. We extract limits on the branching ratio B(t -> Zq) (q = u, c quarks), assuming anomalous tuZ or tcZ couplings. We do not observe any sign of such anomalous coupling and set a limit of B < 3.2% at 95% C.L. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:313 / 320
页数:8
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