FIZIKA B 17 (2008) 1, 181 - 188

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SINGLE TOP QUARK PRODUCTION AT THE FERMILAB TEVATRON COLLIDER

 JOVAN MITREVSKI
(on behalf of the CDF and D0 Collaborations)

Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California,
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

 Received 20 November 2007;   Accepted 20 February 2008
Online 19 June 2008
First evidence for single top quark production has recently been found by both the D0 and CDF experiments. By combining three analyses, D0 measured a cross section of s(p[`p] ® tb+X, tqb+X ) = 4.7 ±1.3  pb, with a significance of 3.6 standard deviations, and CDF's matrix elements analysis measured a cross section of s(p[`p] ® tb+X, tqb+X) = 3.0 +1.2-1.1 pb, with a significance of 3.1 standard deviations. These analyses also provided the first direct measurements of the CKM matrix element, |Vtb|, without assuming unitarity. This paper briefly describes the latest single top production results from the two experiments.
PACS numbers: 14.65.Ha, 12.15.Hh, 13.85.Ni
UDC 539.126

Keywords: CDF, D0, top quark physics, CKM matrix

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