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Evidence for top quark production in p¯p collisions at √s =1.8 TeV

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
CollaboratorsProduit, Nicolasorcid
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 73, no. 2, p. 225-231
Publication date1994
First online date1994-07-11
Abstract

We summarize a search for the top quark with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in a sample of $\bar{p}p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 1.8 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 19.3pb$~{-1}$. We find 12 events consistent with either two $W$ bosons, or a $W$ boson and at least one $b$ jet. The probability that the measured yield is consistent with the background is 0.26\%. Though the statistics are too limited to establish firmly the existence of the top quark, a natural interpretation of the excess is that it is due to $t\bar{t}$ production. Under this assumption, constrained fits to individual events yield a top quark mass of $174 \pm 10~{+13}_{-12}$ GeV/c$~2$. The $t\bar{t}$ production cross section is measured to be $13.9~{+6.1}_{-4.8}$pb. (Submitted to Physical Review Letters on May 16, 1994).

Keywords
  • Anti-p p: colliding beams
  • Colliding beams: anti-p p
  • Anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • Top
  • Quark: hadroproduction
  • Hadroproduction: quark
  • Quark: pair production
  • Pair production: quark
  • Top: decay
  • Decay: quark
  • W: leptonic decay
  • Leptonic decay: W
  • W: nonleptonic decay
  • Nonleptonic decay: W
  • Particle identification: bottom
  • Jet: multiplicity
  • Mass: top
  • Top: mass
  • Channel cross section
  • CDF
  • Experimental results
  • Batavia TEVATRON Coll
  • Anti-p p --> 2top anything
  • Top --> W bottom
  • W --> lepton neutrino
  • W --> quark antiquark
  • 1800 GeV
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
CDF Collaboration. Evidence for top quark production in p¯p collisions at √s =1.8 TeV. In: Physical review letters, 1994, vol. 73, n° 2, p. 225–231. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.73.225
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.225
Journal ISSN0031-9007
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