Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section and|Vtb|in Events with One Charged Lepton, Large Missing Transverse Energy, and Jets at CDF

Autor: Jacobo Konigsberg, J. Lys, R. Roser, Sandra Leone, O. Gonzalez Lopez, W. K. Sakumoto, S. Leo, M. Rescigno, Justin Pilot, Prabhakar Palni, Stefano Camarda, R. St. Denis, P. B. Renton, A. G. Clark, D. Waters, M. Cordelli, G. Busetto, Brian L Winer, K. Takemasa, Daniel Whiteson, C. Grosso-Pilcher, Y. Zeng, A. Hocker, F. Vázquez, F. Ruffini, Mark Kruse, M. Gold, G. Volpi, Gervasio Gomez, Alison Lister, Luca Scodellaro, P. Giromini, Koji Sato, L. Oakes, Jane Nachtman, A. Pranko, D. Tonelli, K. T. Pitts, Bodhitha Jayatilaka, Q. Liu, Anna Zanetti, Song-Ming Wang, F. Azfar, A. Mukherjee, Y. Sakurai, Jian Tang, S. H. Kim, S. Carrillo, Hongfang Liu, L. Brigliadori, C. Pagliarone, Javier Cuevas, Manfred Paulini, M. J. Shochet, A. Simonenko, Fumihiko Ukegawa, S. Uozumi, T. Harrington-Taber, K. Tollefson, G. Chlachidze, Caterina Vernieri, Keunchang Cho, Yongsun Kim, V. Papadimitriou, M. Corbo, Y. C. Chen, F. Ptohos, A. Elagin, Thomas Andrew Schwarz, Jay Dittmann, Sally Seidel, J. D. Lewis, Giorgio Chiarelli, Shalhout Shalhout, Stanislav Tokár, H. Gerberich, Elisabetta Pianori, A. V. Kotwal, A. Loginov, A. B. Wicklund, Adrian Buzatu, D. Hirschbuehl, Ryan Christopher Edgar, J. Boudreau, I. Shreyber-Tecker, Andrew Beretvas, Alberto Annovi, A. Artikov, Pierfrancesco Butti, R. Orava, Peter Wagner, Y. D. Oh, M. M. Deninno, Federico Sforza, L. Pondrom, Erik Brücken, Y. Seiya, E. E. Schmidt, D. Stentz, Y. Takeuchi, Maxim Goncharov, Peter Wittich, D. Amidei, Andrea Bocci, Th. Müller, G. Flanagan, A. Boveia, Christopher Clarke, J. E. Kim, J. Conway, T. Nigmanov, Jonathan L. Rosner, T. Miao, D. Chokheli, Koji Yamamoto, A. Manousakis-Katsikakis, P. K. Teng, W. Ashmanskas, S. Lockwitz, Sudhir Malik, M. D'Errico, A. T. Goshaw, Viviana Cavaliere, R. E. Hughes, I. Oksuzian, V. Saveliev, W. Ketchum, Tomoko Yoshida, T. Rodriguez, Matthew Herndon, B. A. Barnett, Giorgio Apollinari, Teruki Kamon, P. Mazzanti, Bruno Casal, D. Cauz, P. Marino, K. Sliwa, M. Kurata, Andrew Ivanov, R. Vilar, B. Auerbach, S. Moed, S. Donati, Kenichi Hatakeyama, D. Yamato, K. Kondo, B. Esham, Aidan Robson, Paul Lujan, R. McNulty, M. Hare, G. Lungu, M. Tecchio, R. D. Field, I. Redondo Fernández, M. Franklin, Andrea Castro, S. R. Hou, S. Errede, Yasuyoshi Nagai, D. Lucchesi, R. Madrak, J. Naganoma, Daniela Bortoletto, K. Gibson, Matteo Cremonesi, Xin Wu, P. E. Karchin, Nicola D'Ascenzo, J. A. Appel, C. M. Ginsburg, M. Hussein, S. Rolli, Benjamin Kilminster, P. Wilson, G. Pauletta, A. Mazzacane, D. W. Jang, K. Knoepfel, K. Goulianos, Mousumi Datta, Y. C. Yang, F. Canelli, P. F. Shepard, S. H. Oh, S. Behari, V. Thukral, J. Lueck, Kazuhiko Hara, M. J. Morello, C. Galloni, V. Rusu, Y. Kato, E. Thomson, W. C. Wester, Virgil E Barnes, I. Yu, J. C. Freeman, Barry Blumenfeld, W. Hopkins, J. Guimaraes Da Costa, A. Ruiz, V. A. Giakoumopoulou, M. Lancaster, Chris Hays, Matteo Bauce, U. Husemann, P. de Barbaro, P. Mehtala, M. Kirby, Giuseppe Latino, Franco Bedeschi, Tara Shears, Itsuo Nakano, T. Wright, M. Kambeitz, Marcelo Vogel, D. Goldin, T. Aaltonen, Fedor Prokoshin, E. Gerchtein, H. Wolfe, P. Catastini, D. Toback, G. P. Yeh, Alan Garfinkel, M. J. Kim, C. Bromberg, T. Okusawa, C. Plager, Fabrizio Margaroli, T. R. Junk, M. E. Convery, J. Nett, Stefano Giagu, J. Asaadi, P. Barria, E. James, Naoki Kimura, I. V. Gorelov, Zhenbin Wu, J. Yoh, D. H. Kim, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, E. Palencia, A. Napier, N. Moggi, J. Huston, J. S. Wilson, G. Punzi, Pavol Bartos, S. R. Hahn, Y. Funakoshi, T. J. Phillips, R. Forrest, Chen Zhou, M. Trovato, J. S. H. Lee, V. V. Glagolev, D. Cruz, B. Di Ruzza, I. Suslov, Azeddine Kasmi, H. S. Budd, W. Parker, J. Vizán, G. Manca, Joe Kroll, Sinead Farrington, Monica D'Onofrio, H. S. Lee, S. Poprocki, W. Badgett, A. Bodek, M. Stancari, A. Golossanov, Alessandro Cerri, Paolo Maestro, K. R. Bland, M. Shimojima, T. Yang, K. K. Joo, R. Culbertson, J. R. Smith, G. B. Yu, O. Norniella, C. A. Cox, A. Anastassov, T. Bae, K. Potamianos, S. B. Kim, Stephan Lammel, Lucio Cerrito, E. J. Jeon, M. Dorigo, M. E. Mattson, T. Tomura, Hao Song, S. Zucchelli, F. Rimondi, S. Y. Jun, Antonio Limosani, Robin Erbacher, W-M. Yao, Ziqing Hong, K. Ebina, Young-Jin Kim, G. Velev, P. Totaro, P. Murat, T. Kuhr, L. Nodulman, Giovanni Bellettini, F. D. Snider, J. Y. Han, S. Wolbers, J. Keung, D. Torretta, A. Sukhanov, C. Mesropian, A. Semenov, S. Y. Noh, Kevin Lannon, P. Schlabach, Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos, J. Antos, L. Ortolan, M. Mussini, P. Garosi, H. S. Kim, H. H. Williams, Massimo Casarsa, Sergo Jindariani, L. Santi, Scott Wilbur, J. Budagov, M. Iori, Tetsuo Arisawa, C. Neu, S. Amerio, D. Mietlicki, M. Jones, J. N. Bellinger, Julia Thom, L. Demortier, James Russ, Kohei Yorita, D. Glenzinski, D. J. Kong, Mauro Ronzani, Roman Lysak, B. Carls, V. Sorin, P. Lukens, C. S. Moon, Kevin Burkett, M. Vidal, Roger Moore, Y. Sudo, Elliot Lipeles, K. Matera, Michal Kreps, A. Aurisano, Aristotle Calamba, Douglas Benjamin, N. Giokaris, C. Vellidis, Fabrizio Scuri, A. Driutti, A. T. Laasanen, J. P. Fernández Ramos, F. Devoto, Jochen Jens Heinrich, E. Gramellini, Mario Campanelli, Christoph Paus, R. Wallny, Duncan Carlsmith, D. J. Cox, A. Di Canto, Henry J. Frisch, Aurore Savoy-Navarro, R. F. Harr, Luciano Ristori, S. Torre, Tiehui Liu, P. J. Bussey, Rodolfo Carosi, A. Mitra, U. K. Yang, H. Miyake, F. Happacher, Andrea Di Luca, A. Bhatti, Maxwell Chertok, Ankita Mehta, Luigi Marchese, J. Strologas, Kai Yi, Gianluca Introzzi
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters. 113
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
Popis: We report a measurement of single top quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV using a data set corresponding to 7.5 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We select events consistent with the single top quark decay process t→Wb→lνb by requiring the presence of an electron or muon, a large imbalance of transverse momentum indicating the presence of a neutrino, and two or three jets including at least one originating from a bottom quark. An artificial neural network is used to discriminate the signal from backgrounds. We measure a single top quark production cross section of 3.04(-0.53)(+0.57) pb and set a lower limit on the magnitude of the coupling between the top quark and bottom quark |Vtb|>0.78 at the 95% credibility level.
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