Measurement of color flow in t-tbar events from p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Collaboration, D0 and Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Williams, Mark and Ratoff, Peter and Love, Peter and Sopczak, Andre (2011) Measurement of color flow in t-tbar events from p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV. Physical Review D, 83 (9): 092002. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We present the first measurement of the color representation of the hadronically decaying W boson in t-tbar events, from 5.3 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 experiment. A novel calorimeter-based vectorial variable, "jet pull," is used, sensitive to the color-flow structure of the final state. We find that the fraction of uncolored W bosons is 0.56 +- 0.42(stat+syst), in agreement with the standard model.

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Physical Review D
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© 2011 American Physical Society Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
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24 Apr 2013 14:02
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