Tevatron Combination of Single-Top-Quark Cross Sections and Determination of the Magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element Vtb\bf V_{tb}

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Mar 17, 2015

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Abstract: (APS)
We present the final combination of CDF and D0 measurements of cross sections for single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data correspond to total integrated luminosities of up to 9.7  fb−1 per experiment. The t-channel cross section is measured to be σt=2.25-0.31+0.29  pb. We also present the combinations of the two-dimensional measurements of the s- vs t-channel cross section. In addition, we give the combination of the s+t channel cross section measurement resulting in σs+t=3.30-0.40+0.52  pb, without assuming the standard model value for the ratio σs/σt. The resulting value of the magnitude of the top-to-bottom quark coupling is |Vtb|=1.02-0.05+0.06, corresponding to |Vtb|>0.92 at the 95% C.L.
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  • 11 pages, 4 figures
  • 14.65.Ha
  • 12.15.Ji
  • 13.85.Qk
  • 12.15.Hh
  • anti-p p: colliding beams
  • transverse energy: missing-energy
  • top: single production
  • cross section: measured
  • quark: coupling
  • anti-p p: scattering