Title
Exclusion of an exotic top quark with -4/3 electric charge using soft lepton tagging
Date Issued
31 August 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aaltonen T.
Adelman J.
Álvarez González B.
Amerio S.
Amidei D.
Anastassov A.
Annovi A.
Antos J.
Apollinari G.
Appel J.
Apresyan A.
Arisawa T.
Artikov A.
Asaadi J.
Ashmanskas W.
Attal A.
Aurisano A.
Azfar F.
Badgett W.
Barbaro-Galtieri A.
Barnes V.E.
Barnett B.A.
Barria P.
Bartos P.
Bauer G.
Beauchemin P.H.
Bedeschi F.
Beecher D.
Behari S.
Bellettini G.
Bellinger J.
Benjamin D.
Beretvas A.
Bhatti A.
Binkley M.
Bisello D.
Bizjak I.
Blair R.E.
Blocker C.
Blumenfeld B.
Bocci A.
Bodek A.
Boisvert V.
Bortoletto D.
Boudreau J.
Boveia A.
Brau B.
Bridgeman A.
Brigliadori L.
Bromberg C.
Brubaker E.
Budagov J.
Budd H.S.
Budd S.
Burkett K.
Busetto G.
Bussey P.
Buzatu A.
Byrum K.L.
Cabrera S.
Calancha C.
Camarda S.
Campanelli M.
Campbell M.
Canelli F.
Canepa A.
Carls B.
Carlsmith D.
Carosi R.
Carrillo S.
Carron S.
Casal B.
Casarsa M.
Castro A.
Catastini P.
Cauz D.
Cavaliere V.
Cavalli-Sforza M.
Cerri A.
Cerrito L.
Chang S.H.
Chen Y.C.
Chertok M.
Chiarelli G.
Chlachidze G.
Chlebana F.
Cho K.
Chokheli D.
Chou J.P.
Chung K.
Chung W.H.
Chung Y.S.
Chwalek T.
Ciobanu C.I.
Ciocci M.A.
Clark A.
Clark D.
Compostella G.
Convery M.E.
Conway J.
Abstract
We present a measurement of the electric charge of the top quark using pp̄ collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7fb -1 at the CDF II detector. We reconstruct tt̄ events in the lepton+jets final state. We use soft lepton taggers to determine the flavor of the b jets, which we use to reconstruct the top quark's electric charge and exclude an exotic top quark with -4/3 charge at 95% confidence level. This is the strongest exclusion of the exotic charge scenario and the first to use soft leptons for this purpose. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
Volume
105
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77956272918
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
10797114
Sponsor(s)
Science and Technology Facilities Council PP/E000444/1, ST/H001026/1, ST/H001026/2, ST/H001069/1, ST/H001077/1
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