Measurement of B (t→Wb) / B (t→Wq) in Top-Quark-Pair Decays Using Dilepton Events and the Full CDF Run II Data Set

Abstract

We present a measurement of the ratio of the top-quark branching fractions R=B(t?Wb)/B(t?Wq), where q represents any quark flavor, in events with two charged leptons, imbalance in total transverse energy, and at least two jets. The measurement uses proton-antiproton collision data at center-of-mass energy 1.96 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7??fb-1 collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during Run II of the Tevatron. We measure R to be 0.87±0.07, and extract the magnitude of the top-bottom quark coupling to be |Vtb|=0.93±0.04, assuming three generations of quarks. Under these assumptions, a lower limit of |Vtb|>0.85(0.87) at 95% (90%) credibility level is set.