Measurement of the W boson polarization in top decay at CDF at √s = 1.8 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

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^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^k JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^l DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^o INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^r HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^u JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^w Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^x Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^y Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

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^aa UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ab MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^ad MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^af UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^ag NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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^aj UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^al UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BOSON; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LEPTON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; QUARK; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; STANDARD; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84927712228     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.031101     Document Type: Article

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