Title
Searching the inclusive l γe T+b-quark signature for radiative top quark decay and non-standard-model processes
Date Issued
06 August 2009
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aaltonen T.
Adelman J.
Akimoto T.
Álvarez González B.
Amerio S.
Amidei D.
Anastassov A.
Annovi A.
Antos J.
Apollinari G.
Apresyan A.
Arisawa T.
Artikov A.
Ashmanskas W.
Attal A.
Aurisano A.
Azfar F.
Badgett W.
Barbaro-Galtieri A.
Barnes V.E.
Barnett B.A.
Barria P.
Bartsch V.
Bauer G.
Beauchemin P.H.
Bedeschi F.
Beecher D.
Behari S.
Bellettini G.
Bellinger J.
Benjamin D.
Beretvas A.
Beringer J.
Bhatti A.
Binkley M.
Bisello D.
Bizjak I.
Blair R.E.
Blocker C.
Blumenfeld B.
Bocci A.
Bodek A.
Boisvert V.
Bolla G.
Bortoletto D.
Boudreau J.
Boveia A.
Brau B.
Bridgeman A.
Brigliadori L.
Bromberg C.
Brubaker E.
Budagov J.
Budd H.S.
Budd S.
Burke S.
Burkett K.
Busetto G.
Bussey P.
Buzatu A.
Byrum K.L.
Cabrera S.
Calancha C.
Campanelli M.
Campbell M.
Canelli F.
Canepa A.
Carls B.
Carlsmith D.
Carosi R.
Carrillo S.
Carron S.
Casal B.
Casarsa M.
Castro A.
Catastini P.
Cauz D.
Cavaliere V.
Cavalli-Sforza M.
Cerri A.
Cerrito L.
Chang S.H.
Chen Y.C.
Chertok M.
Chiarelli G.
Chlachidze G.
Chlebana F.
Cho K.
Chokheli D.
Chou J.P.
Choudalakis G.
Chuang S.H.
Chung K.
Chung W.H.
Chung Y.S.
Chwalek T.
Ciobanu C.I.
Ciocci M.A.
Clark A.
Clark D.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
We compare the inclusive production of events containing a lepton (á), a photon (γ), significant transverse momentum imbalance (E T), and a jet identified as containing a b-quark, to SM predictions. The search uses data produced in proton-antiproton collisions at s=1.96TeV corresponding to 1.9fb-1 of integrated luminosity taken with the CDF detector. We find 28 áγbET events versus an expectation of 31.0-3.5+4.1 events. If we further require events to contain at least three jets and large total transverse energy, the largest SM source is radiative top-quark pair production, tt̄+γ. In the data we observe 16 tt̄γ candidate events versus an expectation from SM sources of 11.2-2.1+2.3. Assuming the difference between the observed number and the predicted non-top-quark total of 6.8-2.0+2.2 is due to SM top-quark production, we estimate the tt̄γ cross section to be 0.15±0.08pb. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
Volume
80
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-69949089013
Source
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
ISSN of the container
15502368
Sponsor(s)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (PP/E000444/1, PP/E000452/1, PPA/A/S/2003/00461/2, ST/H001077/1)
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