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FIZIKA B 17 (2008) 1, 181 - 188
 
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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