Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-05-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions
Scientific paper
This article reports on recent searches for single-top-quark production by the CDF collaboration at the Tevatron using a data set that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 955 pb^-1. Three different analyses techniques are employed, one using likelihood discriminants, one neural networks and one matrix elements. The sensitivity to single-top production at the rate predicted by the standard model ranges from 2.1 to 2.6 sigma. While the first two analyses observe a deficit of single-top like events compared to the expectation, the matrix element method observes an excess corresponding to a background fluctuation of 2.3 sigma. The null results of the likelihood and neural network analyses translate in upper limits on the cross section of 2.6\ pb for the t-channel production mode and 3.7 pb for the s-channel mode at the 95% C.L. The matrix element result corresponds to a measurement of 2.7^+1.5_-1.3 pb for the combined t- and s-channel single-top cross section. In addition, CDF has searched for non-standard model production of single-top-quarks via the s-channel exchange of a heavy W^\prime boson. No signal of this process is found resulting in lower mass limits of 760 GeV/c^2 in case the mass of the right-handed neutrino is smaller than the mass of the right-handed W^\prime or 790 GeV/c^2 in the opposite case.
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