Exclusion of an exotic top quark with -4/3 electric charge using soft lepton tagging

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Sep 3;105(10):101801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.101801. Epub 2010 Aug 31.

Abstract

We present a measurement of the electric charge of the top quark using pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.7 fb(-1) at the CDF II detector. We reconstruct tt events in the lepton + jets final state. We use soft lepton taggers to determine the flavor of the b jets, which we use to reconstruct the top quark's electric charge and exclude an exotic top quark with -4/3 charge at 95% confidence level. This is the strongest exclusion of the exotic charge scenario and the first to use soft leptons for this purpose.