Improving the Acceptance in the Single Top Quark Analysis using 7.5 fb$$^{-1}$$ of CDF data

Thesis/Dissertation · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1436694· OSTI ID:1436694

Ronzani, Manfredi ^[1]

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1. Pisa U.

The Top quark was observed at the Fermilab Tevatron by the CDF and D0 collaboration in 1995 via strong production of top quarks pairs at center-of-mass energy of $$ \sqrt{s}=1.8 $$ Tev, using 60 pb^-1 of data [1]. Standard Model of elementary particles predicts top quark to be produced individually via electroweak interactions in three different channels (s, t and Wt). This is defined as ”single top” (from now on also ST). ST was observed by CDF collaboration in 2009 at center-of-mass energy of $$ \sqrt{s}=1.96 $$ Tev using 3.2 fb^-1 of $$ p\overline{p}\ $$ collected data [2]. This thesis concerns the upgrade of this measurement using 7.5 fb^-1 of data.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1436694
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-MASTERS-2012-07; 1671476
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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