@article{10902/10893, year = {2014}, month = {5}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/10893}, abstract = {We present an analysis of top-antitop quark production and decay into a tau lepton, tau neutrino, and bottom quark using data from 9??fb-1 of integrated luminosity at the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Dilepton events, where one lepton is an energetic electron or muon and the other a hadronically decaying tau lepton, originating from proton-antiproton collisions at vs=1.96??TeV, are used. A top-antitop quark production cross section of 8.1±2.1??pb is measured, assuming standard-model top quark decays. By separately identifying for the first time the single-tau and the ditau components, we measure the branching fraction of the top quark into the tau lepton, tau neutrino, and bottom quark to be (9.6±2.8)%. The branching fraction of top quark decays into a charged Higgs boson and a bottom quark, which would imply violation of lepton universality, is limited to be less than 5.9% at a 95% confidence level [for B(H-?t¯?)=1].}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, publisher = {Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 89, Num. 9, Pag. 091101 (2014)}, title = {Study of top quark production and decays involving a tau lepton at CDF and limits on a charged Higgs boson contribution}, author = {Aaltonen, Timo Antero and Casal Laraña, Bruno and Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier and Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio and Palencia Cortezón, José Enrique and Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto and Scodellaro, Luca and Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío and Vizán García, Jesús Manuel}, }