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Phys. Rev. D 75, 092007 (2007) [27 pages]

Multivariate searches for single top quark production with the D0 detector

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V. M. Abazov et al. D0 Collaboration
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Received 10 April 2006; published 29 May 2007

We present a search for electroweak production of single top quarks in the s-channel (pp̅ →tb̅ +X) and t-channel (pp̅ →tqb̅ +X) modes. We have analyzed 230  pb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of s=1.96  TeV. No evidence for a single top quark signal is found. We set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross sections, based on binned likelihoods formed from a neural network output. The observed (expected) limits are 6.4 pb (4.5 pb) in the s-channel and 5.0 pb (5.8 pb) in the t-channel.

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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.092007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.092007
PACS:
14.65.Ha, 12.15.Ji, 13.85.Qk