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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.232003
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- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Science Foundation
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- National Science Council of the Republic of China
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- A.P. Sloan Foundation
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Germany
- World Class University
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Royal Society, UK
- Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Spain
- Slovak RD Agency
- Academy of Finland
- STFC [ST/H001026/1, ST/H001069/1, ST/H001077/1, ST/H001026/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H001026/2, ST/H001026/1, ST/H001069/1, ST/H001077/1, PP/E000444/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present a measurement of the top-quark width in the lepton + jets decay channel of t (t) over bar events produced in p (p) over bar collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron collider and collected by the CDF II detector. 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 the hadronically decaying W boson that comes from the top-quark decay 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 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 consistent with the standard model prediction.
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