Model-independent measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

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Model-independent measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

G. Sajot M. S. Rangel Anna Goussiou B. Sanghi J. F. Bartlett R. Nayyar Horst Severini D. Edmunds Robert Kehoe W. C. Yang Maxim Perfilov Y. T. Tsai R. K. Shivpuri A. S. Santos L. S. Ancu P. Renkel S. Schlobohm H. Greenlee D. M. Strom G. S. Muanza Gregory R Snow A. Bross Hakjae Lee L. Welty-rieger Serban Protopopescu M. Aoki Andy Haas Zhenyu Ye Gavin Davies Pedro G Mercadante R. Lopes De Sa L. Bellantoni Wendy Taylor L. S. Vertogradov V. Bunichev Yuri Gershtein N. K. Mondal D. Boline H. T. Diehl S. M. Lietti Y. Scheglov Kaushik De P. D. Grannis J. Orduna A. Jonckheere K. Devaughan Andrew White A. Boehnlein E. Camacho-pérez Kristian Harder Robert Hirosky David Cutts R. Illingworth Arnulf Quadt Dmitri Tsybychev R. L. Mccarthy R. Bernhard W. E. Cooper Hang Yin Reinhard Schwienhorst U. Bassler Sergey Burdin Daniel R Claes S. P. Denisov A. Lobodenko Elemer Nagy J. Ellison S. Fuess T. Kurca Jan Stark Henry Lubatti G. Gutierrez A. Sanchez-hernandez Arnaud Duperrin Emanuela Barberis Marc Weber D. N. Brown Daria Zieminska Michael Mulhearn M. C. Cousinou Sergio F Novaes Greg Landsberg Sw. Banerjee K. Herner Regina Demina Heriberto Castilla-valdez Jong-sung Yu G. Otero Y Garzon Yuji Enari John Hobbs D. Wicke Ron Lipton B. S. Acharya T. R. Wyatt J. Barreto Marco Verzocchi Andrew Askew S. Chevalier-théry Dennis Stephen Mackin M. Arov W. M. Van Leeuwen D. Smirnov Andreas Werner Jung David T. Johnston G. Alkhazov R. Magaña-villalba S. W. Cho G. Obrant N. Osman Gianluca Petrillo Ashok Kumar Elizaveta Shabalina Shabnam Jabeen Anthony Ross K. Soustruznik F. Miconi Oleg Brandt T. Nunnemann D. V. Bandurin S. Söldner-rembold B. Baldin M. P. Sanders Alexander Grohsjean Yueh-feng Liu A. Patwa Christophe Royon Suyong Choi J. Martínez-ortega Bjoern Penning D. Jamin Grigory Safronov J. Snow S. Chakrabarti P. Verdier K. Peters Raymond Brock Sung Keun Park Marcia Begalli H. D. Wahl G. C. Blazey Markus Wobisch D. Karmanov Lev Uvarov Yurii Maravin Vladimir Gavrilov C. Belanger-champagne I. Ripp-baudot A. Meyer P. Rubinov V. A. Kuzmin A. Dubey Tulika Bose G. Grenier D. Khatidze P. A. Kasper R. Beuselinck F. Badaud Gordon Watts G. Golovanov R. Yamada Nikos Varelas Sudhir Malik Ia Iashvili Meenakshi Narain M. Cooke T. Schliephake H. E. Fisk Victor Daniel Elvira V. E. Bazterra Bing Zhou V. Sirotenko Graham Wilson N. Triplett Jean-francois Grivaz Zeno Dixon Greenwood Brajesh C Choudhary A. Evdokimov M. Naimuddin M. M. Meijer P. Jonsson A. Pal J. Backusmayes Martin Grunewald J. Clutter P. N. Ratoff Marc Besancon Milos Lokajicek A. S. Ito A. Melnitchouk Thomas Hebbeker Aran Garcia-bellido M. Merkin Gregorio Bernardi Y. Peters F. Guo Maksym Titov G. D. Alexeev Flera Rizatdinova T. Yasuda Phillip Gutierrez D. Denisov Mary Beth Adams Philip Baringer Aaron Dominguez J. Piper P. Eller A. Das P. Svoisky Darien Wood O. Atramentov J. Sekaric Michael A. Strauss C. P. Buszello T. Dorland Hal Evans Thomas Ferbel M. Prewitt Chong-yu Xu Yuehong Xie Lars Sonnenschein S. Blessing V. V. Lipaev J. Lellouch V. M. Podstavkov J. M. Hauptman Cecilia Elena Gerber N. Prokopenko P. Lebrun Scott Snyder P. Skubic P. Neustroev Thibault Guillemin Edouard Boos D. K. Cho M. Fortner S. Cihangir A. Chandra E. De La Cruz-burelo Konstantinos Petridis G. Ginther G. Ginther G. Ginther Andrew Brandt Jianming Qian J. Joshi A. Jayasinghe A. Croc V. V. Tokmenin Fabrice Couderc S. J. De Jong T. Scanlon Guo-ming Chen S. Kermiche G. Facini H. A. Neal Y. A. Yatsunenko Viatcheslav Stolin M. Hohlfeld Ph Gris Kirti Ranjan J. T. Linnemann Carsten Hensel M. H. Kirby K. Yip Suman Bala Beri V. Hynek Carlos Avila S. Beale Z. Liu K. J. Smith W. M. Lee R. D. Schamberger L. Stutte A.s. Dyshkant H. Hegab V. Parihar Jiri Kvita D. Gerbaudo Cecile Deterre Todd Adams Guennadi Borissov I. Heredia-de La Cruz W. C. Fisher S. Kulikov Liang Li Avto Kharchilava Neeti Parashar I. Razumov Lev Dudko T. Hoang Pushpalatha C Bhat Alexander Khanov M. Zielinski Jiping Zhu J. Hays R. Van Kooten Andrey Popov A. A. Shchukin Frank Fiedler M. D. Corcoran L. Han B. Hoeneisen Lee Sawyer E. Kajfasz M. Jaffré M. Demarteau Joseph Haley I. Katsanos M. Padilla Alexander Kupco Tiefu Zhao S. W. Youn J. K. Kraus N. Parua D. Vilanova Randy Ruchti R. Jesik K. A. Johns P. L.m. Podesta-lerma Gustaaf Brooijmans Brad Abbott Shih-chang Lee Pierre Petroff J. Warchol Z. Hubacek Z. Hubacek D. Chakraborty Don Lincoln Erich Varnes M. Vesterinen R. Madar J. K. Lim B. ÅSman A. P. Heinson M. A. Pleier B. C.k. Casey Christfried Focke P. Polozov V. Simak Sabine Lammers James H Cochran Marvin Johnson Mitchell Wayne A. L. Lyon H. Schellman J. M. Kohli A. V. Kozelov Stefan Grünendahl L. Zivkovic X. B. Bu B. Tuchming Daniel Duggan S. Desai Petr Vokac Frederic Deliot Christopher George Tully B. Calpas Patrick Slattery T. H. Burnett Gilvan Alves Ulrich Heintz Frank Filthaut G. Savage N. Huske M. Diesburg A. Tanasijczuk P. Salcido D. A. Stoyanova C. L. Mcgivern S. Uvarov Michael Begel Eduardo De Moraes Gregores Q. Z. Li T. Head B. Quinn A. Juste C. Schwanenberger Alice Bean J. A. Parsons J. Osta Volker Buescher Harald Fox L. Suter Maiko Takahashi I. A. Vasilyev J. S. Brown Vipin Bhatnagar R. Partridge Kenneth Bloom V. L. Malyshev Gavin Grant Hesketh Ketino Kaadze V. A. Bezzubov J. P. Negret R. Luna-garcia Michael Hildreth D. Menezes Darren Price S. Uzunyan M. Eads Suneel Dutt Amnon Harel A. Alton Meng Wang M. A. Carrasco-lizarraga W. Geng W. Geng W. Geng N. Khalatyan S. Yacoob George Alverson D. Hedin Y. N. Kharzheev Jean-arcady Meyer V. M. Abazov L. Bagby V. Shary S. Greder Iain Alexander Bertram Michael Rijssenbeek K. M. Chan S. Zelitch V. N. Evdokimov M. Rominsky M. Buehler Mark Richard James Williams Sharon Hagopian A. K.a. Maciel R. Piegaia

subject

Quark Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics Top quark Particle physics Muon 010308 nuclear & particles physics Electroweak interaction Tevatron Particle accelerator Electron 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences law.invention Nuclear physics law 0103 physical sciences High Energy Physics::Experiment Fermilab Nuclear Experiment 010306 general physics

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We present a model-independent measurement of $t$-channel electroweak production of single top quarks in $\ppbar$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\;\rm TeV$. Using $5.4\;\rm fb^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, and selecting events containing an isolated electron or muon, missing transverse energy and one or two jets originating from the fragmentation of $b$ quarks, we measure a cross section $\sigma({\ppbar}{\rargap}tqb+X) = 2.90 \pm 0.59\;\rm (stat+syst)\; pb$ for a top quark mass of $172.5\;\rm GeV$. The probability of the background to fluctuate and produce a signal as large as the one observed is $1.6\times10^{-8}$, corresponding to a significance of 5.5 standard deviations.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2011-11-01	Physics Letters B

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.035