Search for Single Top Quark Production in $$p\bar{p}$$ Collisions $$\sqrt{s}$$ = 1.8-TeV
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
We present the results of a search for single-top-quark production in 106 $$pb^{-l}$$ of data from $$p\bar{p}$$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$ = 1.8 TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) during the 1992-1995 Run 1 of the Tevatron. This paper is organized as follows. After a review of the Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions in Chapter 2.we explain in Chapter 3. why single-top-quark production is especially well-suited to studying the top quark's properties, both within and beyond the Standard Model. In Chapter 4. we describe the experimental apparatus. Chapter 5. describes the selection criteria by which we identify single-top (signal) events in the data and Chapter 6. discusses the types of nonsingle- top {background) processes that also satisfy these criteria. Chapter 6. concludes with an estimate of the numbers of signal and background events expected to remain in the data sample after the selection criteria have been applied. These predictions indicate that the CDF Run 1 data sample has insufficient statistical sensitivity to permit observation of Standard-Model single-top production.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1369294
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS--2002-48; UMI--30-58078; UMI--30-58078-MC; 606663
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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