Study of Top-Quark Production and Decays involving a Tau Lepton at CDF and Limits on a Charged-Higgs Boson Contribution

Collaboration
Feb 26, 2014
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 89 (2014) 9, 091101
  • Published: May 13, 2014
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Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-14-036
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Abstract: (APS)

We present an analysis of top-antitop quark production and decay into a tau lepton, tau neutrino, and bottom quark using data from 9fb-1 of integrated luminosity at the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Dilepton events, where one lepton is an energetic electron or muon and the other a hadronically decaying tau lepton, originating from proton-antiproton collisions at s=1.96TeV, are used. A top-antitop quark production cross section of 8.1±2.1pb is measured, assuming standard-model top quark decays. By separately identifying for the first time the single-tau and the ditau components, we measure the branching fraction of the top quark into the tau lepton, tau neutrino, and bottom quark to be (9.6±2.8)%. The branching fraction of top quark decays into a charged Higgs boson and a bottom quark, which would imply violation of lepton universality, is limited to be less than 5.9% at a 95% confidence level [for B(H-τν¯)=1].

Note:
  • 8 pages, 5 figures accepted by Phys. Rev. D
  • 14.65.Ha
  • 14.80.Da
  • 14.80.Fd
  • top: decay modes
  • top: branching ratio: measured
  • Higgs particle: charged particle
  • top: pair production
  • lepton: universality
  • anti-p p: scattering
  • CDF