Direct Top-Quark Width Measurement CDF

Abstract

We present a measurement of the top-quark width using $t\bar{t}$ events produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron collider and collected by the CDF II detector. In the mode where the top quark decays to a $W$ boson and a bottom quark, we select events in which one $W$ decays leptonically and the other hadronically~(lepton + jets channel) . From a data sample corresponding to 4.3~fb${}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, we identify 756 candidate events. The top-quark mass and the mass of $W$ boson that decays hadronically are reconstructed for each event and compared with templates of different top-quark widths~(${\Gamma }_t$) and deviations from nominal jet energy scale~(${\Delta }_{JES}$) to perform a simultaneous fit for both parameters, where ${\Delta }_{JES}$ is used for the {\it in situ} calibration of the jet energy scale. By applying a Feldman-Cousins approach, we establish an upper limit at 95$\%$ confidence level~(CL) of ${\Gamma }_t<$ 7.6 GeV and a two-sided 68$\%$ CL interval of 0.3 GeV $<{\Gamma }_t<$ 4.4 GeV for a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV$/c^2$, which are consistant with the standard model prediction. This is the first direct measurement of ${\Gamma }_t$ to set a lower limit with 68$\%$ CL.

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