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Observation of the top quark

  • S. Abachi
  • , B. Abbott
  • , M. Abolins
  • , B. S. Acharya
  • , I. Adam
  • , D. L. Adams
  • , M. Adams
  • , S. Ahn
  • , H. Aihara
  • , J. Alitti
  • , G. Alvarez
  • , G. A. Alves
  • , E. Amidi
  • , N. Amos
  • , E. W. Anderson
  • , S. H. Aronson
  • , R. Astur
  • , R. E. Avery
  • , A. Baden
  • , V. Balamurali
  • J. Balderston, B. Baldin, J. Bantly, J. F. Bartlett, K. Bazizi, J. Bendich, S. B. Beri, I. Bertram, V. A. Bezzubov, P. C. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, A. Bischoff, N. Biswas, G. Blazey, S. Blessing, A. Boehnlein, N. I. Bojko, F. Borcherding, J. Borders, C. Boswell, A. Brandt, R. Brock, A. Bross, D. Buchholz, V. S. Burtovoi, J. M. Butler, D. Casey, H. Castilla-Valdez, D. Chakraborty, S. M. Chang, S. V. Chekulaev, L. P. Chen, W. Chen, L. Chevalier, S. Chopra, B. C. Choudhary, J. H. Christenson, M. Chung, D. Claes, A. R. Clark, W. G. Cobau, J. Cochran, W. E. Cooper, C. Cretsinger, D. Cullen-Vidal, M. Cummings, D. Cutts, O. I. Dahl, K. De, M. Demarteau, R. Demina, K. Denisenko, N. Denisenko, D. Denisov, S. P. Denisov, W. Dharmaratna, H. T. Diehl, M. Diesburg, G. Di Loreto, R. Dixon, P. Draper, J. Drinkard, Y. Ducros, S. R. Dugad, S. Durston-Johnson, D. Edmunds, A. O. Efimov, J. Ellison, V. D. Elvira, R. Engelmann, S. Eno, G. Eppley, P. Ermolov, O. V. Eroshin, V. N. Evdokimov, S. Fahey, T. Fahland, M. Fatyga, M. K. Fatyga, J. Featherly, S. Feher, D. Fein, T. Ferbel, G. Finocchiaro, H. E. Fisk, Yu Fisyak, E. Flattum, G. E. Forden, M. Fortner, K. C. Frame, P. Franzini, S. Fredriksen, S. Fuess, A. N. Galjaev, E. Gallas, C. S. Gao, S. Gao, T. L. Geld, R. J. Genik, K. Genser, C. E. Gerber, B. Gibbard, M. Glaubman, V. Glebov, S. Glenn, J. F. Glicenstein, B. Gobbi, M. Goforth, A. Goldschmidt, B. Gomez, P. I. Goncharov, H. Gordon, L. T. Goss, N. Graf, P. D. Grannis, D. R. Green, J. Green, H. Greenlee, G. Griffin, N. Grossman, P. Grudberg, S. Grünendahl, J. A. Guida, J. M. Guida, W. Guryn, S. N. Gurzhiev, Y. E. Gutnikov, N. J. Hadley, H. Haggerty, S. Hagopian, V. Hagopian, K. S. Hahn, R. E. Hall, S. Hansen, R. Hatcher, J. M. Hauptman, D. Hedin, A. P. Heinson, U. Heintz, R. Hernandez-Montoya, T. Heuring, R. Hirosky, J. D. Hobbs, B. Hoeneisen, J. S. Hoftun, F. Hsieh, Ting Hu, Tong Hu, T. Huehn, S. Igarashi, A. S. Ito, E. James, J. Jaques, S. A. Jerger, J. Z.Y. Jiang, T. Joffe-Minor, H. Johari, K. Johns, M. Johnson, H. Johnstad, A. Jonckheere, H. Jöstlein, S. Y. Jun, C. K. Jung, S. Kahn, J. S. Kang, R. Kehoe, M. Kelly, A. Kernan, L. Kerth, C. L. Kim, S. K. Kim, A. Klatchko, B. Klima, B. I. Klochkov, C. Klopfenstein, V. I. Klyukhin, V. I. Kochetkov, J. M. Kohli, D. Koltick, A. V. Kostritskiy, J. Kotcher, J. Kourlas, A. V. Kozelov, E. A. Kozlovski, M. R. Krishnaswamy, S. Krzywdzinski, S. Kunori, S. Lami, G. Landsberg, R. E. Lanou, J. F. Lebrat, J. Lee-Franzini, A. Leflat, H. Li, J. Li, Y. K. Li, Q. Z. Li-Demarteau, J. G.R. Lima, D. Lincoln, S. L. Linn, J. Linnemann, R. Lipton, Y. C. Liu, F. Lobkowicz, S. C. Loken, S. Lökös, L. Lueking, A. L. Lyon, A. K.A. MacIel, R. J. Madaras, R. Madden, I. V. Mandrichenko, Ph Mangeot, S. Mani, B. Mansoulié, H. S. Mao, S. Margulies, R. Markeloff, L. Markosky, T. Marshall, M. I. Martin, M. Marx, B. May, A. A. Mayorov, R. McCarthy, T. McKibben, J. McKinley, H. L. Melanson, J. R.T. De Mello Neto, K. W. Merritt, H. Miettinen, A. Milder, C. Milner, A. Mincer, J. M. De Miranda, C. S. Mishra, M. Mohammadi-Baarmand, N. Mokhov, N. K. Mondal, H. E. Montgomery, P. Mooney, M. Mudan, C. Murphy, C. T. Murphy, F. Nang, M. Narain, V. S. Narasimham, A. Narayanan, H. A. Neal, J. P. Negret, E. Neis, P. Nemethy, D. Neić, D. Norman, L. Oesch, V. Oguri, E. Oltman, N. Oshima, D. Owen, P. Padley, M. Pang, A. Para, C. H. Park, Y. M. Park, R. Partridge, N. Parua, M. Paterno, J. Perkins, A. Peryshkin, M. Peters, H. Piekarz, Y. Pischalnikov, A. Pluquet, V. M. Podstavkov, B. G. Pope, H. B. Prosper, S. Protopopescu, D. Pueljić, J. Qian, P. Z. Quintas, R. Raja, S. Rajagopalan, O. Ramirez, M. V.S. Rao, P. A. Rapidis, L. Rasmussen, A. L. Read, S. Reucroft, M. Rijssenbeek, T. Rockwell, N. A. Roe, J. M.R. Roldan, P. Rubinov, R. Ruchti, S. Rusin, J. Rutherfoord, A. Santoro, L. Sawyer, R. D. Schamberger, H. Schellman, D. Schmid, J. Sculli, E. Shabalina, C. Shaffer, H. C. Shankar, R. K. Shivpuri, M. Shupe, J. B. Singh, V. Sirotenko, W. Smart, A. Smith, R. P. Smith, R. Snihur, G. R. Snow, S. Snyder, J. Solomon, P. M. Sood, M. Sosebee, M. Souza, A. L. Spadafora, R. W. Stephens, M. L. Stevenson, D. Stewart, F. Stocker, D. A. Stoianova, D. Stoker, K. Streets, M. Strovink, A. Taketani, P. Tamburello, J. Tarazi, M. Tartaglia, T. L. Taylor, J. Teiger, J. Thompson, T. G. Trippe, P. M. Tuts, N. Varelas, E. W. Varnes, P. R.G. Virador, D. Vititoe, A. A. Volkov, E. Von Goeler, A. P. Vorobiev, H. D. Wahl, J. Wang, L. Z. Wang, J. Warchol, M. Wayne, H. Weerts, W. A. Wenzel, A. White, J. T. White, J. A. Wightman, J. Wilcox, S. Willis, S. J. Wimpenny, J. V.D. Wirjawan, Z. Wolf, J. Womersley, E. Won, D. R. Wood, H. Xu, R. Yamada, P. Yamin, C. Yanagisawa, J. Yang, T. Yasuda, C. Yoshikawa, S. Youssef, J. Yu, Y. Yu, Y. Zhang, Y. H. Zhou, Q. Zhu, Y. S. Zhu, Z. H. Zhu, D. Zieminska, A. Zieminski, A. Zinchenko, A. Zylberstejn
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Purdue University
  • Michigan State University
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • Columbia University
  • Rice University
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
  • Northeastern University
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Iowa State University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Stony Brook University
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Brown University
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Panjab University
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Delhi
  • Florida State University
  • University of Rochester
  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Arizona
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • University of California at Davis
  • Universidad de los Andes Colombia
  • Texas A&M University
  • Universidad San Francisco de Quito
  • Korea University
  • Seoul National University
  • New York University
  • Kyungsung University
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Abstract

The D0 Collaboration reports on a search for the standard model top quark in pp̄ collisions at s=1.8TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron with an integrated luminosity of approximately 50 pb-1. We have searched for tt̄ production in the dilepton and single-lepton decay channels with and without tagging of b-quark jets. We observed 17 events with an expected background of 3.8±0.6 events. The probability for an upward fluctuation of the background to produce the observed signal is 2×10-6 (equivalent to 4.6 standard deviations). The kinematic properties of the excess events are consistent with top quark decay. We conclude that we have observed the top quark and measured its mass to be 199-21+19 (stat) ±22 (syst) GeV/c2 and its production cross section to be 6.4±2.2 pb.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2632-2637
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume74
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 1995

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