Tree-level W branching fractions (${\Gamma }_{\mathrm{tot}}=9{\Gamma }_{\ell }$)

With three massless lepton families, two accessible up-type quarks, three colors, and no Quantum chromodynamics radiative correction, a W boson has total decay width $9{\Gamma }_{\ell }$. With an identity CKM matrix, each leptonic channel has branching fraction $1/9$ and each of the two allowed quark-flavour channels has $1/3$. With mixing, each accessible quark channel is weighted by $|V_{ij}{|}^2$, while row unitarity preserves the total at this order if all down-type channels are accessible.