dc.contributor.author | Baringer, Philip S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bean, Alice | |
dc.contributor.author | Hensel, Carsten | |
dc.contributor.author | Moulik, Tania | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Graham Wallace | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-28T13:51:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-28T13:51:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-05-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | V. M. Abazov et al. (DØ Collaboration). (2007). "Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of |V(tb)|." Physical Review Letters, 98(18)181802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.181802 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15404 | |
dc.description | This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.181802. | |
dc.description.abstract | The D0 Collaboration presents first evidence for the production of single top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron pp-bar collider. Using a 0.9 fb(−1) dataset, we apply a multivariate analysis to separate signal from background and measure σ(pp-bar→tb+X,tqb+X)=4.9±1.4 pb. The probability to measure a cross section at this value or higher in the absence of a signal is 0.035%, corresponding to a 3.4 standard deviation significance. We use the cross section measurement to directly determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element that describes the Wtb coupling and find 0.68<|V(tb)|≤1 at 95% C.L. within the standard model. | |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dc.title | Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of |V(tb)| | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Baringer, Philip S. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Bean, Alice | |
kusw.kuauthor | Hensel, Carsten | |
kusw.kuauthor | Moulik, Tania | |
kusw.kuauthor | Wilson, Graham Wallace | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.181802 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |