Search for single top quark production in ppˉp \bar{p} collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 1.96-TeV

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May, 2005

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Abstract:
We present a search for electroweak production of single top quarks in the s-channel and t-channel using neural networks for signal-background separation. We have analyzed 230 pb1^{-1} of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV and find no evidence for a single top quark signal. The resulting 95% confidence level upper limits on the single top quark production cross sections are 6.4 pb in the s-channel and 5.0 pb in the t-channel.
Note:
  • 9 pages, 4 figures Report-no: FERMILAB-PUB-05/207-E Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 622: 265-276, 2005
  • 12.15.Ji
  • 14.65.Ha
  • 13.85.Qk
  • D0
  • anti-p p: colliding beams
  • anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • top
  • quark: hadroproduction
  • top: decay
  • W: leptonic decay