Download or read book Search for Single Top Quark Production at D0 in Run II. written by Reinhard Schwienhorst and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I present a comprehensive search for electroweak production of single top quarks in Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron at {radical}s =1.96TeV. Using 230 pb{sup -1} of data collected with the D0 experiment, searches for s-channel and t-channel single top quark production have been carried out in the electron+jets and muon+jets decay channels using secondary-vertex b-quark tagging to select signal-like events. A binned likelihood has been constructed from the outputs of neural networks in order to maximize the sensitivity to single top quark production. No evidence for a single top quark signal is found. However, the 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section of 6.4 pb in the s-channel and 5.0 pb in the t-channel are improvements over previous limits by a factor of two and are approaching the cross section region predicted by the standard model.