Discovery of Single Top Quark Production

• Main Author: Gillberg, Dag (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

This original, outstanding thesis presents the first discovery of single top quark production and documents one of the flagship measurements of the D0 experiment, a collaboration of more than 600 particle physicists from around the world. It describes the first observation of a physical process know...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Theoretical Background
• Experimental Setup
• Event Reconstruction
• Analysis: Event Selection
• Analysis: Decision Trees
• Analysis: Measurements
• Summary.