Observation of single top quark production and measurement of |Vtb| with CDF
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Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Makhoul, Khaldoun; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Bauer, Gerry P
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Observation of single top quark production and measurement of |V subscript tb| with CDF
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We report the observation of electroweak single top quark production in 3.2 fb-1 [fb superscript -1] of pp̅ collision data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab at √s=1.96 TeV [square root of s=1.96 TeV]. Candidate events in the W+jets topology with a leptonically decaying W boson are classified as signal-like by four parallel analyses based on likelihood functions, matrix elements, neural networks, and boosted decision trees. These results are combined using a super discriminant analysis based on genetically evolved neural networks in order to improve the sensitivity. This combined result is further combined with that of a search for a single top quark signal in an orthogonal sample of events with missing transverse energy plus jets and no charged lepton. We observe a signal consistent with the standard model prediction but inconsistent with the background-only model by 5.0 standard deviations, with a median expected sensitivity in excess of 5.9 standard deviations. We measure a production cross section of 2.3-0.5+0.6(stat+sys) [2.3 subscript -0.5 superscript +0.6 (stat + sys)] pb, extract the value of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vtb|=0.91-0.11+0.11(stat+sys)±0.07 [|V subscript tb|=0.91 subscript -0.11 superscript +0.11 (stat + sys)±0.07] (theory), and set a lower limit |Vtb|>0.71 [|V subscript tb|>0.71] at the 95% C.L., assuming mt=175 [m subscript t =175] GeV/c2 [GeV / c superscript 2].
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2010-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical review D
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American Physical Society
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Aaltonen, T. et al. “Observation of Single Top Quark Production and Measurement of |V_{tb}| with CDF.” Physical Review D 82.11 (2010) © 2010 The American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1550-2368