Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-09-25
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
8 pages, 8 figures, To be published in the proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, July 2009, eConf C090726
Scientific paper
I report on the observation of electroweak production of single top quarks in proton anti-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 2.3 inverse-fb of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Using events containing an isolated electron or muon, missing transverse energy, two, three or four jets, with one or two of them identified as originating from the fragmentation of a b quark, the measured cross section for the process (pp-bar to tb+X,tqb+X) is 3.94 +- 0.88 pb (for a top quark mass of 170 GeV). The probability to measure a cross section at this value or higher in the absence of signal is 2.5E-7, corresponding to a 5.0 standard deviation significance. Using the same dataset, the measured cross sections for the t- and the s-channel processes when determined simultaneously with no assumption on their relative production rate are 3.14+0.94-0.80 pb and 1.05+-0.81pb respectively, consistent with standard model expectations. The measured t-channel cross section has a significance of 4.8 standard deviations, representing the first evidence for the production of an individual single top process to be detected.
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