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. 2018 Feb 15;78(2):129. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5595-5

Table 2.

Summary of systematic uncertainties in the top-quark decay width measurement

Source Uncertainty (GeV)
Detector model
   Electron -0.07+0.14
   Muon -0.06+0.11
   Jet energy scale -0.30+0.42
   Jet energy resolution ±0.27
   Jet vertex fraction -0.03+0.13
   Jet reconstruction efficiency ±0.03
   Missing transverse momentum ±0.01
   b-Tagging -0.24+0.32
Signal model
   ME event generator ±0.41
   Colour reconnection ±0.19
   Underlying event ±0.11
   Radiation ±0.07
   PDF ±0.06
   PS/hadronisation ±0.05
Background model
   Multijet -0.00+0.04
   W+jets ±0.02
   Single top <0.01 
Template statistical uncertainty ±0.07
Luminosity -0.00+0.03
Total systematic uncertainty -0.68+0.79