On Observing Top Quark Production at the Tevatron
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-11-01 v2
Abstract
A technique for separating top quark production from Standard Model background events is introduced. It is applicable to the channel in which one top quark decays semi-leptonically and its anti-quark decays hadronically into three jets, or vice versa. The method is shown to discriminate dramatically between Monte Carlo generated events with and without simulated top quarks of mass around 120 GeV and above. The simulations were performed with CDF detector characteristics incorporated, showing that the method is applicable to existing data.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9205246,
title = {On Observing Top Quark Production at the Tevatron},
author = {Gary R. Goldstein and K. Sliwa and R. H. Dalitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9205246},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, TUFTS-TH-92-G01 (Two minor TeX mistakes corrected)