Observation of s-channel production of single top quarks at the tevatron
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 9-08534
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.231803
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Article number
- 231803
- First page
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- Volume
- 112
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/106733/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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766
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 43
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- I developed lepton selections and their efficiency determinations at the CDF experiment for these high-transverse-momentum measurements, and data-driven methods of measuring the associated backgrounds. As Head of Offline I was responsible for (re)processing the entire dataset used for this legacy measurement. This is the first observation of s-channel single top-quark production, which is an electroweak process. It is much rarer than the pair production of top quarks through the strong interaction, and is particularly sensitive to classes of new physics. Its observation was therefore a landmark in top-quark physics.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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