Probing the flavor of the top quark decay
Abstract
The top quark sector is almost decoupled from lighter quark generations due to the fact that ~1. The current experimental measurements of are compatible with the Standard Model expectations but are still dominated by experimental uncertainties. In this manuscript, a revision of the experimental methods used to measure is given, and a simple method to probe heavy flavor content fraction of top quark events, , is presented and discussed. Prospects for the measurements at the Large Hadron Collider based on generator level simulations are outlined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1010.2994,
title = {Probing the flavor of the top quark decay},
author = {Pedro Silva and Michele Gallinaro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2994},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
The original method presented in this manuscript is partially described in "Probing the Heavy Flavor Content of Top quark events produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider with the CMS detector", Pedro Silva, PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, Portugal (2009)