Helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD

doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.111503

Title: Helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD

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Decay rates of unpolarized top quarks into longitudinally and transversally polarized W bosons are calculated to second order in the strong coupling constant {alpha}{sub s}. Including the finite bottom quark mass and electroweak effects, the standard model predictions for the W-boson helicity fractions are F{sub L}=0.687(5), F{sub +}=0.0017(1), and F{sub -}=0.311(5).

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Czarnecki, Andrzej; Koerner, Juergen G; Piclum, Jan H ^[1]

Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G7, Canada and CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Publication Date:: 2010-06-01

OSTI Identifier:: 21407932

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 81; Journal Issue: 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.111503; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; Journal ID: ISSN 0556-2821

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; B QUARKS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; FORECASTING; HELICITY; MASS; PARTICLE DECAY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; STANDARD MODEL; STRONG-COUPLING MODEL; T QUARKS; W MINUS BOSONS; W PLUS BOSONS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; BOSONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARKS; SIMULATION; TOP PARTICLES; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS

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                    Czarnecki, Andrzej, Koerner, Juergen G, Piclum, Jan H, Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, 55099 Mainz, and Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G7. Helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD.  United States: N. p., 2010. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.111503.

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                    Czarnecki, Andrzej, Koerner, Juergen G, Piclum, Jan H, Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, 55099 Mainz, & Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G7. Helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.111503

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                    Czarnecki, Andrzej, Koerner, Juergen G, Piclum, Jan H, Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, 55099 Mainz, and Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G7. Tue .  
        "Helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.111503.

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@article{osti_21407932,

  title        = {Helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD},

  author       = {Czarnecki, Andrzej and Koerner, Juergen G and Piclum, Jan H and Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, 55099 Mainz and Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G7},

  abstractNote = {Decay rates of unpolarized top quarks into longitudinally and transversally polarized W bosons are calculated to second order in the strong coupling constant {alpha}{sub s}. Including the finite bottom quark mass and electroweak effects, the standard model predictions for the W-boson helicity fractions are F{sub L}=0.687(5), F{sub +}=0.0017(1), and F{sub -}=0.311(5).},

  doi          = {10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.111503},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21407932},
  journal      = {Physical Review. D, Particles Fields},

  issn         = {0556-2821},

  number       = 11,

  volume       = 81,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2010},

  month        = {6}

}

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