Download or read book Search for a Dark Matter Candidate Produced in Association with a Single Top Quark in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We report a new search for dark matter in a data sample of an integrated luminosity of 7.7 fb−1 of Tevatron p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, collected by the CDF II detector. We search for production of a dark matter candidate, D, in association with a single top quark. We consider the hadronic decay mode of the top quark exclusively, yielding a final state of three jets with missing transverse energy. The data are consistent with the standard model; we thus set 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section of the process p{bar p} → t + D as a function of the mass of the dark-matter candidate. The limits are approximately 0.5 pb for a dark-matter particle with mass in the range of 0 - 150 GeV/c2.