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The neutrino closure method is often used to obtain kinematics of semileptonic decays with one unreconstructed particle. The kinematics of decays can be deducted by a two-fold ambiguity with a quadratic equation. To resolve the two-fold…
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We present a measurement of the top-quark width using $t\bar{t}$ events produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron collider and collected by the CDF II detector. In the mode where the top quark decays to a $W$ boson and a…
For the process of single top quark production within the "simplified model" with a scalar dark matter mediator, a new variable based on angular correlations was presented, for the proper reconstruction of which it is necessary to separate…
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