# Tevatron combination of single-top-quark cross sections and determination of the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element V$_{tb}$ - Zurich Open Repository and Archive

CDF Collaboration; D0 Collaboration; Aaltonen, T A; Amerio, S; Amidei, D E; et al; Canelli, F; Kilminster, B (2015). Tevatron combination of single-top-quark cross sections and determination of the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element V$_{tb}$. Physical Review Letters, 115:152003.

## Abstract

We present the final combination of CDF and D0 measurements of cross sections for single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data correspond to total integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb$^{-1}$ per experiment. The $t$-channel cross section is measured to be $\sigma_t = 2.25^{+0.29}_{-0.31}$ pb. We also present the combinations of the two-dimensional measurements of the $s$- vs. $t$-channel cross sections and of the $s+t$ channel cross section measurement resulting in $\sigma_{s+t} = 3.30^{+0.52}_{-0.40}$ pb, without assuming the standard-model value for the ratio $\sigma_s/\sigma_t$. The resulting value of the magnitude of the top-to-bottom quark coupling is $|V_{tb}|$ = $1.02^{+0.06}_{-0.05}$, corresponding to $|V_{tb}| > 0.92$ at the 95% C.L.

## Abstract

We present the final combination of CDF and D0 measurements of cross sections for single-top-quark production in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data correspond to total integrated luminosities of up to 9.7 fb$^{-1}$ per experiment. The $t$-channel cross section is measured to be $\sigma_t = 2.25^{+0.29}_{-0.31}$ pb. We also present the combinations of the two-dimensional measurements of the $s$- vs. $t$-channel cross sections and of the $s+t$ channel cross section measurement resulting in $\sigma_{s+t} = 3.30^{+0.52}_{-0.40}$ pb, without assuming the standard-model value for the ratio $\sigma_s/\sigma_t$. The resulting value of the magnitude of the top-to-bottom quark coupling is $|V_{tb}|$ = $1.02^{+0.06}_{-0.05}$, corresponding to $|V_{tb}| > 0.92$ at the 95% C.L.

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Item Type: Journal Article, refereed, original work 07 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute 530 Physics English 17 March 2015 12 Feb 2016 16:49 28 Apr 2017 03:22 American Physical Society 0031-9007 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.152003 arXiv:1503.05027v2