tW−mode of single top quark production

Observation of single top-quark production.

We report observation of the electroweak production of single top quarks in pp[over ] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV based on 2.3 fb(-1) of data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Using events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse energy, together with jets originating from the fragmentation of b quarks, we measure a cross section of sigma(p...

Observation of electroweak single top-quark production.

We report the observation of single top-quark production using 3.2 fb(-1) of pp[over ] collision data with sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The significance of the observed data is 5.0 standard deviations, and the expected sensitivity for standard model production and decay is in excess of 5.9 standard deviations. Assuming m(t) = 175 GeV/c(2), we measure a cross ...

Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production

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Single-top-quark production at hadron colliders

Single-top-quark production probes the charged-current weak interaction of the top quark, and provides a direct measurement of the CKM matrix element Vtb. We perform two independent analyses to quantify the accuracy with which the W -gluon fusion (gq → tb̄q) and qq̄ → tb̄ signals can be extracted from the backgrounds at both the Tevatron and the LHC. Although perturbation theory breaks down at low...

Top Quark Production