Evidence for s-Channel Single-Top-Quark Production in Events with One Charged Lepton and Two Jets at CDF

We report evidence for s-channel single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy vs=1.96 TeV using a data set that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb-1 collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We select events consistent with the s-channel p...

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Autores: Aaltonen, Timo Antero, Casal Laraña, Bruno, Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier, Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio|||0000-0002-1077-6553, Palencia Cortezón, José Enrique, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto|||0000-0002-3639-0368, Scodellaro, Luca|||0000-0002-4974-8330, Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío|||0000-0003-2045-8054, Vizán García, Jesús Manuel|||0000-0002-6823-8854
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/13903
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13903
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:We report evidence for s-channel single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy vs=1.96 TeV using a data set that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb-1 collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We select events consistent with the s-channel process including two jets and one leptonically decaying W boson. The observed significance is 3.8 standard deviations with respect to the background-only prediction. Assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV/c2, we measure the s-channel cross section to be 1.41+0.44-0.42 pb.