Title
Observation of electroweak single top-quark production
Date Issued
24 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.
Isello D.
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.
Compostella G.
Convery M.E.
Conway J.
Abstract
We report the observation of single top-quark production using 3.2fb-1 of pp̄ collision data with s=1.96TeV 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 mt=175GeV/c2, we measure a cross section of 2.3-0.5+0.6(stat+syst)pb, extract the CKM matrix-element value |Vtb|=0.91±0.11(stat+syst)±0.07(theory), and set the limit |Vtb|>0.71 at the 95% C.L. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
Volume
103
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-69249147347
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
Science and Technology Facilities Council, PP/E000444/1
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