Search for the single top quarks produced in s-channel via electroweak interactions at s = 1-96 at the Tevatron (open access)

Search for the single top quarks produced in s-channel via electroweak interactions at s = 1-96 at the Tevatron

The authors present a search for single top quarks produced in the s-channel electroweak production mode. The search is performed in the electron+jets decay channels, with one or more secondary-vertex tagged jets to indicate the presence of a b-jet and hence improving the signal:background ratio. Separation between signal and background is further enhanced by the use of Feed Forward Neural networks. 360 pb{sup -1} of Run II data used for this analysis was delivered by the Tevatron, and collected by D0 between August 2002 and August 2004. The resulting 95% confidence level upper limit is 4 pb.
Date: January 1, 2006
Creator: Jabeen, Shabnam
System: The UNT Digital Library