Evidence for Single Top Production at the Tevatron

Abstract

We present first evidence for the production of single top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron {\ppbar} collider. Both D0 and CDF experiments have measured the single top production cross section with a 3-standard-deviation significance using 0.9 fb${}^{-1}$ and 2.2 fb${}^{-1}$ of lepton+jets data, respectively. A direct measurement of the CKM matrix element that describes the $Wtb$ coupling is also performed for the first time.

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