Further ways to distinguish single - lepton top quark signals from background at the Tevatron
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Further kinematical variables are suggested, in which to compare the putative leptonic W plus 4-jet top quark signal with the QCD background. We show that the lepton rapidity asymmetry, the p T-ranking of the tagged b-jet, the double-tag probability, the reconstructed t + ¯ t invariant mass, and the lepton energy in the parent top quark rest-frame, all display interesting differences between signal and background .
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