Measurement of the fraction of t(t)over-bar production via gluon-gluon fusion in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.96 Tev

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作者
Aaltonen, T. [27 ,28 ]
Adelman, J. [16 ]
Akimoto, T. [71 ]
Albrow, M. G. [21 ]
Alvarez Gonzaelez, B. [14 ]
Amerio, S. [53 ,54 ]
Amidei, D. [44 ]
Anastassov, A. [48 ]
Annovi, A. [23 ]
Antos, J. [17 ,18 ]
Apollinari, G. [21 ]
Apresyan, A. [62 ]
Arisawa, T. [73 ]
Artikov, A. [19 ]
Ashmanskas, W. [21 ]
Attal, A. [4 ]
Aurisano, A. [68 ]
Azfar, F. [52 ]
Azzurri, P. [57 ,60 ]
Badgett, W. [21 ]
Barbaro-Galtieri, A. [37 ]
Barnes, V. E. [62 ]
Barnett, B. A. [30 ]
Bartsch, V. [39 ]
Bauer, G. [41 ]
Beauchemin, P. -H. [42 ,43 ]
Bedeschi, F. [57 ]
Bednar, P. [17 ,18 ]
Beecher, D. [39 ]
Behari, S. [30 ]
Bellettini, G. [57 ,58 ]
Bellinger, J. [75 ]
Benjamin, D. [20 ]
Beretvas, A. [21 ]
Beringer, J. [37 ]
Bhatti, A. [64 ]
Binkley, M. [21 ]
Bisello, D. [53 ,54 ]
Bizjak, I. [39 ]
Blair, R. E. [2 ]
Blocker, C. [8 ]
Blumenfeld, B. [30 ]
Bocci, A. [20 ]
Bodek, A. [63 ]
Boisvert, V. [63 ]
Bolla, G. [62 ]
Bortoletto, D. [62 ]
Boudreau, J. [61 ]
Boveia, A. [12 ]
Brau, B. [12 ]
机构
[1] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Univ Athens, GR-15771 Athens, Greece
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[5] Baylor Univ, Waco, TX 76798 USA
[6] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[7] Univ Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[8] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[9] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[10] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[11] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[12] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[13] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[14] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[15] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[16] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[17] Comenius Univ, Bratislava 84248, Slovakia
[18] Inst Expt Phys, Kosice 04001, Slovakia
[19] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[20] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[21] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[22] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[23] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[24] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[25] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[26] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[27] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Div High Energy Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[28] Helsinki Inst Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[29] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[30] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[31] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[32] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[33] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[34] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[35] Korea Inst Sci & Technol Informat, Taejon 305806, South Korea
[36] Chonnam Natl Univ, Kwangju 500757, South Korea
[37] Ernest O Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[38] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[39] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[40] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[41] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[42] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[43] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[44] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[45] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[46] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[47] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[48] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[49] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[50] Okayama Univ, Okayama 7008530, Japan
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 03期
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 芬兰科学院; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
QUARK PAIR PRODUCTION; SPIN CORRELATIONS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.031101
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the ratio of the t (t) over bar production cross section via gluon-gluon fusion to the total t (t) over bar production cross section in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 Tev at the Tevatron. Using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 955 pb(-1) recorded by the CDF II detector at Fermilab, we select events based on the t (t) over bar decay to lepton + jets. Using an artificial neural network technique we discriminate between t (t) over bar events produced via q (q) over bar annihilation and gg fusion, and find G(f) = sigma(gg -> t (t) over bar/sigma(p (p) over bar -> t (t) over bar) < 0.33 at the 68% confidence level. This result is combined with a previous measurement to obtain the most stringent measurement of this quantity by CDF to date, G(f) = 0.07(-0.07)(+0.15).
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