Single top quark measurements at the Tevatron

par M. Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University)

mardi 1 juil. 2008, 11:00 → 12:00 US/Central

Salle 101 (LAL - Orsay)

The D0 and CDF experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron have found evidence for single top quark production and measured the CKM matrix element |Vtb| directly for the first time. Both are working towards observation of single top. I will describe how these state-of-the-art analyses employ multivariate analysis techniques to extract the small single top signal out of the large backgrounds. I will also present prospects for single top physics at the Tevatron and the LHC.

Poster SemR.Schwienhorst.pdf

Slides OrsaySingletop2008.pdf