Optimized search for single-top-quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron

Authors

• Darin Acosta, University of FloridaFollow
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-25-2004

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D 69, 052003 (2004). http://prd.aps.org. Copyright © 2004 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We use a neural-network technique to search for standard model single-top-quark production in the 106 pb^-1 dataset accumulated by the Collider Detector at Fermilab detector during the 1992–1995 collider run ("run I"). Using a sample of 64 W+1, 2, 3 jets events, we set a 95% confidence level upper limit of 24 pb on the W-gluon and W* combined single-top cross section.