Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 81, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.072003
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- U.S. Department 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 Program
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Royal Society, UK
- Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion
- Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain
- Slovak RD Agency
- Academy of Finland
- STFC [ST/H001026/2, ST/H001077/1, ST/H001069/1, ST/H001026/1] 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
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We report a search for single top quark production with the CDF II detector using 2: 1 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity of p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV. The data selected consist of events characterized by large energy imbalance in the transverse plane and hadronic jets, and no identified electrons and muons, so the sample is enriched in W -> tau nu decays. In order to suppress backgrounds, additional kinematic and topological requirements are imposed through a neural network, and at least one of the jets must be identified as a b quark jet. We measure an excess of signal-like events in agreement with the standard model prediction, but inconsistent with a model without single top quark production by 2.1 standard deviations (sigma), with a median expected sensitivity of 1.4 sigma. Assuming a top quark mass of 175 GeV/c(2) and ascribing the excess to single top quark production, the cross section is measured to be 4.9(-2.2)(+2.5) (stat + syst) pb, consistent with measurements performed in independent data sets and with the standard model prediction.
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