Search for s-Channel Single-Top-Quark Production in Events with Missing Energy Plus Jets in p¯p Collisions at vs=1.96??TeV
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Aaltonen, Timo Antero; Casal Laraña, Bruno; Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier; Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio; Palencia Cortezón, José Enrique; Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto; Scodellaro, Luca; Vilar Cortabitarte, Rocío; Vizán García, Jesús ManuelFecha
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© 2014 American Physical Society
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Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 112, Num. 23, Pag. 231805 (2014)
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American Physical Society
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The first search for single-top-quark production from the exchange of an s-channel virtual W boson using events with an imbalance in the total transverse energy, b-tagged jets, and no identified leptons is presented. Assuming the electroweak production of top quarks of mass 172.5??GeV/c2 in the s channel, a cross section of 1.12+0.61-0.57 (stat+syst) pb with a significance of 1.9 standard deviations is measured. This measurement is combined with the result obtained from events with an imbalance in total transverse momentum, b-tagged jets, and exactly one identified lepton, yielding a cross section of 1.36+0.37-0.32 (stat+syst) pb, with a significance of 4.2 standard deviations.
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