Observation of single top quark production

Speaker: Ulrich Heintz, Boston University

When: April 16, 2009 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)
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This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

Abstract: The D0 experiment studies top quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at 2 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. The top quark was discovered in 1995 at the Tevatron in top-antitop quark production through the strong interaction. The production of single top or antitop quarks via the electroweak interaction was only observed recently. The observation of this production mode provides an illustration of the power of state-of-the-art analysis techniques and opens the window for studies of top quark properties that were up to now not accessible. In this talk, I will present the results obtained by the D0 experiment.