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Top quark pair production and top quark properties at CDF

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-11-04 v1

Abstract

We present the most recent measurements of top quark pairs production and top quark properties in proton-antiproton collisions with center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using CDF II detector at the Tevatron. The combination of top pair production cross section measurements and the direct measurement of top quark width are reported. The test of Standard Model predictions for top quark decaying into bb-quarks, performed by measuring the ratio RR between the top quark branching fraction to bb-quark and the branching fraction to any type of down quark is shown. The extraction of the CKM matrix element Vtb|V_{tb}| from the ratio RR is discussed. We also present the latest measurements on the forward-backward asymmetry (AFBA_{FB}) in top anti-top quark production. With the full CDF Run II data set, the measurements are performed in top anti-top decaying to final states that contain one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons). In addition, we combine the results of the leptonic forward-backward asymmetry in ttˉt\bar t system between the two final states. All the results show deviations from the next-to-leading order (NLO) standard model (SM) calculation.

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@article{arxiv.1411.0063,
  title  = {Top quark pair production and top quark properties at CDF},
  author = {Chang-Seong Moon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0063},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Valencia, Spain, July 2-9 2014