Measurement of the W boson helicity fractions in the decays of top quark pairs to lepton + jets final states produced in pp collisions at s=8TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.007

Measurement of the W boson helicity fractions in the decays of top quark pairs to lepton + jets final states produced in pp collisions at s=8TeV

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

The W boson helicity fractions from top quark decays in tt‾ events are measured using data from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV. The data were collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.8fb⁻¹. Events are reconstructed with either one muon or one electron, along with four jets in the final state, with two of the jets being identified as originating from b quarks. The measured helicity fractions from both channels are combined, yielding F₀=0.681±0.012(stat)±0.023(syst), F_L=0.323±0.008(stat)±0.014(syst), and F_R=−0.004±0.005(stat)±0.014(syst) for the longitudinal, left-, and right-handed components of the helicity, respectively. These measurements of the W boson helicity fractions are the most accurate to date and they agree with the predictions from the standard model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	512-534
Number of pages	23
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	762
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.007
Publication status	Published - 2016 Nov 10

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Keywords

Anomalous couplings
CMS
Helicity
Physics
Top

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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