Electroweak production of the top quark in the Run II of the Dzero experiment

This thesis deals with the search for electroweak production of the top quark (single top in $s$ and $t$ channels) in ppbar collisions at the Tevatron in the D0 eperiment with an integrated luminosity of 370~pb$^{-1}$. This process has not been obbserved yet.Identifying the bottom qurk jet from the top decay plays a major role in this analysis. Impact parameters of tracks attached to a jet are converted into the probability for the jet to originate from the primary vertex. This algorithm has a 45% tagging efficiency for a 0.5% mistag rate.The searched signature consists in 2 to 4 jets with at least one bottom quark jet, one charged lepton and missing energy. A multivariate analysis is needed to separate the signal from the main backgrounds. The achieved sensitivity is not sufficient enough to reach observation and we computed upper limits at the 95% confidence level of 5~pb ($s$-channel) and 4.3~pb ($t$-channel) on single top production cross-sections.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00069608
Author Clément, Benoît
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Last Updated May 19, 2026, 11:01 (UTC)
Created May 19, 2026, 11:01 (UTC)
Identifier tel-00069608
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contributor Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS) ; Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Clément, Benoît
date 2006-04-28T00:00:00
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