Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 82, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.112005
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Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Science Foundation
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- National Science Council of the Republic of China
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- A. P. Sloan Foundation
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Germany
- World Class University, National Research Foundation of Korea
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Royal Society, U.K
- Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion
- Slovak RD Agency
- Academy of Finland
- STFC [ST/H001026/2, ST/H001026/1, ST/H001069/1, ST/H001077/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H001026/2, ST/H001026/1, ST/H001069/1, ST/H001077/1, PP/E000444/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18071002] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We report the observation of electroweak single top quark production in 3: 2 fb(-1) of p (p) over bar collision data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab at root s = 1.96 TeV. Candidate events in the W + jets topology with a leptonically decaying W boson are classified as signal-like by four parallel analyses based on likelihood functions, matrix elements, neural networks, and boosted decision trees. These results are combined using a super discriminant analysis based on genetically evolved neural networks in order to improve the sensitivity. This combined result is further combined with that of a search for a single top quark signal in an orthogonal sample of events with missing transverse energy plus jets and no charged lepton. We observe a signal consistent with the standard model prediction but inconsistent with the background-only model by 5.0 standard deviations, with a median expected sensitivity in excess of 5.9 standard deviations. We measure a production cross section of 2.3-(+0.6)(0.5) (stat + sys) pb, extract the value of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element vertical bar V-tb vertical bar = 0.91(-0.11)(+0.11) (stat + sys) +/- 0.07 (theory), and set a lower limit vertical bar V-tb vertical bar > 0.71 at the 95% C. L., assuming m(t) = 175 GeV/c(2).
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