1. Optimized search for single-top-quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron
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Acosta, D, Affolder, T, Albrow, MG, Ambrose, D, Amidei, D, Anikeev, K, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Ashmanskas, W, Azfar, F, Azzi-Bacchetta, P, Bacchetta, N, Bachacou, H, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, VE, Barnett, BA, Baroiant, S, Barone, M, Bauer, G, Bedeschi, F, Behari, S, Belforte, S, Bell, WH, Bellettini, G, Bellinger, J, Benjamin, D, Beretvas, A, Bhatti, A, Binkley, M, Bisello, D, Bishai, M, Blair, RE, Blocker, C, Bloom, K, Blumenfeld, B, Bocci, A, Bodek, A, Bolla, G, Bolshov, A, Bortoletto, D, Boudreau, J, Bromberg, C, Brubaker, E, Budagov, J, Budd, HS, Burkett, K, Busetto, G, Byrum, KL, Cabrera, S, Campbell, M, Carithers, W, Carlsmith, D, Castro, A, Cauz, D, Cerri, A, Cerrito, L, Chapman, J, Chen, C, Chen, YC, Chertok, M, Chiarelli, G, Chlachidze, G, Chlebana, F, Chu, ML, Chung, JY, Chung, WH, Chung, YS, Ciobanu, CI, Clark, AG, Coca, M, Connolly, A, Convery, M, Conway, J, Cordelli, M, Cranshaw, J, Culbertson, R, Dagenhart, D, D'Auria, S, de Barbaro, P, De Cecco, S, Dell'Agnello, S, Dell'Orso, M, Demers, S, Demortier, L, Deninno, M, De Pedis, D, Derwent, PF, Dionisi, C, Dittmann, JR, Dominguez, A, Donati, S, D'Onofrio, M, Dorigo, T, Eddy, N, Erbacher, R, Errede, D, Errede, S, Eusebi, R, Farrington, S, Feild, RG, Fernandez, JP, Ferretti, C, Field, RD, Fiori, I, Flaugher, B, Flores-Castillo, LR, Foster, GW, Franklin, M, Friedman, J, Furic, I, Gallinaro, M, Garcia-Sciveres, M, Garfinkel, AF, Gay, C, Gerdes, DW, Gerstein, E, Giagu, S, Giannetti, P, Giolo, K, Giordani, M, Giromini, P, Glagolev, V, Glenzinski, D, Gold, M, Goldschmidt, N, Goldstein, J, Gomez, G, Goncharov, M, Gorelov, I, Goshaw, AT, Gotra, Y, Goulianos, K, Gresele, A, Grosso-Pilcher, C, Guenther, M, da Costa, JG, Haber, C, Hahn, SR, Halkiadakis, E, Handler, R, Happacher, F, Hara, K, Harris, RM, Hartmann, F, Hatakeyama, K, Hauser, J, Heinrich, J, Hennecke, M, Herndon, M, Hill, C, Hocker, A, Hoffman, KD, Hou, S, Huffman, BT, Hughes, R, Huston, J, Issever, C, Incandela, J, Introzzi, G, Iori, M, Ivanov, A, Iwata, Y, Iyutin, B, James, E, Jones, M, Kamon, T, Kang, J, Unel, MK, Kartal, S, Kasha, H, Kato, Y, Kennedy, RD, Kephart, R, Kilminster, B, Kim, DH, Kim, HS, Kim, MJ, Kim, SB, Kim, SH, Kim, TH, Kim, YK, Kirby, M, Kirsch, L, Klimenko, S, Koehn, P, Kondo, K, Konigsberg, J, Korn, A, Korytov, A, Kroll, J, Kruse, M, Krutelyov, V, Kuhlmann, SE, Kuznetsova, N, Laasanen, AT, Lami, S, Lammel, S, Lancaster, J, Lannon, K, Lancaster, M, Lander, R, Lath, A, Latino, G, LeCompte, T, Le, Y, Lee, J, Lee, SW, Leonardo, N, Leone, S, Lewis, JD, Li, K, Lin, CS, Lindgren, M, Liss, TM, Liu, T, Litvintsev, DO, Lockyer, NS, Loginov, A, Loreti, M, Lucchesi, D, Lukens, P, Lyons, L, Lys, J, Madrak, R, Maeshima, K, Maksimovic, P, Malferrari, L, Mangano, M, Manca, G, Mariotti, M, Martin, M, Martin, A, Martin, V, Martinez, M, Mazzanti, P, McFarland, KS, McIntyre, P, Menguzzato, M, Menzione, A, Merkel, P, Mesropian, C, Meyer, A, Miao, T, Miller, R, Miller, JS, Miscetti, S, Mitselmakher, G, Moggi, N, Moore, R, Moulik, T, Mulhearn, M, Mukherjee, A, Muller, T, Munar, A, Murat, P, Nachtman, J, Nahn, S, Nakano, I, Napora, R, Niell, F, Nelson, C, Nelson, T, Neu, C, Neubauer, MS, Newman-Holmes, C, Nigmanov, T, Nodulman, L, Oh, SH, Oh, YD, Ohsugi, T, Okusawa, T, Orejudos, W, Pagliarone, C, Palmonari, F, Paoletti, R, Papadimitriou, V, Patrick, J, Pauletta, G, Paulini, M, Pauly, T, Paus, C, Pellett, D, Penzo, A, Phillips, TJ, Piacentino, G, Piedra, J, Pitts, KT, Pompos, A, Pondrom, L, Pope, G, Pratt, T, Prokoshin, F, Proudfoot, J, Ptohos, F, Poukhov, O, Punzi, G, Rademacker, J, Rakitine, A, Ratnikov, F, Ray, H, Reichold, A, Renton, P, Rescigno, M, Rimondi, F, Ristori, L, Robertson, WJ, Rodrigo, T, Rolli, S, Rosenson, L, Roser, R, Rossin, R, Rott, C, Roy, A, Ruiz, A, Ryan, D, Safonov, A, St Denis, R, Sakumoto, WK, Saltzberg, D, Sanchez, C, Sansoni, A, Santi, L, Sarkar, S, Savard, P, Savoy-Navarro, A, Schlabach, P, Schmidt, EE, Schmidt, MP, Schmitt, M, Scodellaro, L, Scribano, A, Sedov, A, Seidel, S, Seiya, Y, Semenov, A, Semeria, F, Shapiro, MD, Shepard, PF, Shibayama, T, Shimojima, M, Shochet, M, Sidoti, A, Sill, A, Sinervo, P, Slaughter, AJ, Sliwa, K, Snider, FD, Snihur, R, Spezziga, M, Spinella, F, Spiropulu, M, Spiegel, L, Stefanini, A, Strologas, J, Stuart, D, Sukhanov, A, Sumorok, K, Suzuki, T, Takashima, R, Takikawa, K, Tanaka, M, Tecchio, M, Tesarek, RJ, Teng, PK, Terashi, K, Tether, S, Thom, J, Thompson, AS, Thomson, E, Tipton, P, Tkaczyk, S, Toback, D, Tollefson, K, Tonelli, D, Tonnesmann, M, Toyoda, H, Trischuk, W, Tseng, J, Tsybychev, D, Turini, N, Ukegawa, F, Unverhau, T, Vaiciulis, T, Varganov, A, Vataga, E, Vejcik, S, Velev, G, Veramendi, G, Vidal, R, Vila, I, Vilar, R, Volobouev, I, von der Mey, M, Wagner, RG, Wagner, RL, Wagner, W, Wan, Z, Wang, C, Wang, MJ, Wang, SM, Ward, B, Waschke, S, Waters, D, Watts, T, Weber, M, Wester, WC, Whitehouse, B, Wicklund, AB, Wicklund, E, Williams, HH, Wilson, P, Winer, BL, Wolbers, S, Wolter, M, Worm, S, Wu, X, Wurthwein, F, Yang, UK, Yao, W, Yeh, GP, Yi, K, Yoh, J, Yoshida, T, Yu, I, Yu, S, Yun, JC, Zanello, L, Zanetti, A, Zetti, F, Zucchelli, S, Collaboration, CDF, Clark, Allan Geoffrey, D'Onofrio, Monica, and Wu, Xin
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COLLIDER DETECTOR ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Top quark ,Particle physics ,COLLISIONS ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Tevatron ,ddc:500.2 ,law.invention ,Standard Model ,Nuclear physics ,law ,Fermilab ,W-GLUON FUSION ,Collider ,Physics ,w-gluon fusion ,silicon vertex detector ,collider detector ,parton distributions ,cross-section ,cdf ,collisions ,qcd ,Detector ,Particle accelerator ,QCD ,PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS ,SILICON VERTEX DETECTOR ,CROSS-SECTION ,CDF ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Collider Detector at Fermilab - Abstract
We use a neural-network technique to search for standard model single-top-quark production in the 106 pb-1 dataset accumulated by the Collider Detector at Fermilab detector during the 1992-1995 collider run ("run I"). Using a sample of 64 W+1, 2, 3 jets events, we set a 95% confidence level upper limit of 24 pb on the W-gluon and W* combined single-top cross section. © 2004 The American Physical Society.
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- 2016