17–24 Jul 2013
KTH and Stockholm University Campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Single top quark production cross section at the Tevatron

19 Jul 2013, 15:20
20m
F2 (KTH Campus)

F2

KTH Campus

Talk presentation Top and Electroweak Physics Top and Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Aran Garcia-Bellido Alvarez De Miranda (University of Rochester (US))

Description

We present the most recent results from the CDF and D0 Collaborations on searches for electroweak top quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at Fermilab's Tevatron Collider. Single top signal is separated from background processes using multivariate analysis methods. The final result is compared to state-of-art theory predictions.

Primary author

The CDF and DØ Collaborations (Fermi National Laboratory)

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