Observation of Single Top-Quark Production

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V. M. Abazov³⁶, B. Abbott⁷⁴, M. Abolins⁶⁴, B. S. Acharya²⁹, M. Adams⁵⁰, T. Adams⁴⁸, E. Aguilo⁶, M. Ahsan⁵⁸, G. D. Alexeev³⁶, G. Alkhazov⁴⁰, A. Alton^64,*, G. Alverson⁶², G. A. Alves², L. S. Ancu³⁵, T. Andeen⁵², M. S. Anzelc⁵², M. Aoki⁴⁹, Y. Arnoud¹⁴, M. Arov⁵⁹, M. Arthaud¹⁸, A. Askew^48,†, B. Åsman⁴¹, O. Atramentov^48,†, C. Avila⁸, J. BackusMayes⁸¹, F. Badaud¹³, L. Bagby⁴⁹, B. Baldin⁴⁹, D. V. Bandurin⁵⁸, P. Banerjee²⁹, S. Banerjee²⁹, E. Barberis⁶², A.-F. Barfuss¹⁵, P. Bargassa⁷⁹, P. Baringer⁵⁷, J. Barreto², J. F. Bartlett⁴⁹, U. Bassler¹⁸, D. Bauer⁴³, S. Beale⁶, A. Bean⁵⁷, M. Begalli³, M. Begel⁷², C. Belanger-Champagne⁴¹, L. Bellantoni⁴⁹, A. Bellavance⁴⁹, J. A. Benitez⁶⁴, S. B. Beri²⁷, G. Bernardi¹⁷, R. Bernhard²³, I. Bertram⁴², M. Besançon¹⁸, R. Beuselinck⁴³, V. A. Bezzubov³⁹, P. C. Bhat⁴⁹, V. Bhatnagar²⁷, G. Blazey⁵¹, S. Blessing⁴⁸, K. Bloom⁶⁶, A. Boehnlein⁴⁹, D. Boline⁶¹, T. A. Bolton⁵⁸, E. E. Boos³⁸, G. Borissov⁴², T. Bose⁷⁶, A. Brandt⁷⁷, R. Brock⁶⁴, G. Brooijmans⁶⁹, A. Bross⁴⁹, D. Brown¹⁹, X. B. Bu⁷, N. J. Buchanan⁴⁸, D. Buchholz⁵², M. Buehler⁸⁰, V. Buescher²², V. Bunichev³⁸, S. Burdin^42,‡, T. H. Burnett⁸¹, C. P. Buszello⁴³, P. Calfayan²⁵, B. Calpas¹⁵, S. Calvet¹⁶, J. Cammin⁷⁰, M. A. Carrasco-Lizarraga³³, E. Carrera⁴⁸, W. Carvalho³, B. C. K. Casey⁴⁹, H. Castilla-Valdez³³, S. Chakrabarti⁷¹, D. Chakraborty⁵¹, K. M. Chan⁵⁴, A. Chandra⁴⁷, E. Cheu⁴⁵, D. K. Cho⁶¹, S. Choi³², B. Choudhary²⁸, L. Christofek⁷⁶, T. Christoudias⁴³, S. Cihangir⁴⁹, D. Claes⁶⁶, J. Clutter⁵⁷, Y. Coadou^6,§, M. Cooke⁴⁹, W. E. Cooper⁴⁹, M. Corcoran⁷⁹, F. Couderc¹⁸, M.-C. Cousinou¹⁵, S. Crépé-Renaudin¹⁴, V. Cuplov⁵⁸, D. Cutts⁷⁶, M. Ćwiok³⁰, A. Das⁴⁵, G. Davies⁴³, K. De⁷⁷, S. J. de Jong³⁵, E. De La Cruz-Burelo³³, K. DeVaughan⁶⁶, F. Déliot¹⁸, M. Demarteau⁴⁹, R. Demina⁷⁰, D. Denisov⁴⁹, S. P. Denisov³⁹, S. Desai⁴⁹, H. T. Diehl⁴⁹, M. Diesburg⁴⁹, A. Dominguez⁶⁶, T. Dorland⁸¹, A. Dubey²⁸, L. V. Dudko³⁸, L. Duflot¹⁶, D. Duggan⁴⁸, A. Duperrin¹⁵, S. Dutt²⁷, A. Dyshkant⁵¹, M. Eads⁶⁶, D. Edmunds⁶⁴, J. Ellison⁴⁷, V. D. Elvira⁴⁹, Y. Enari⁷⁶, S. Eno⁶⁰, P. Ermolov^38,d, M. Escalier¹⁵, H. Evans⁵³, A. Evdokimov⁷², V. N. Evdokimov³⁹, A. V. Ferapontov⁵⁸, T. Ferbel^61,70, F. Fiedler²⁴, F. Filthaut³⁵, W. Fisher⁴⁹, H. E. Fisk⁴⁹, M. Fortner⁵¹, H. Fox⁴², S. Fu⁴⁹, S. Fuess⁴⁹, T. Gadfort⁶⁹, C. F. Galea³⁵, A. Garcia-Bellido⁷⁰, V. Gavrilov³⁷, P. Gay¹³, W. Geist¹⁹, W. Geng^15,64, C. E. Gerber⁵⁰, Y. Gershtein^48,†, D. Gillberg⁶, G. Ginther⁷⁰, B. Gómez⁸, A. Goussiou⁸¹, P. D. Grannis⁷¹, S. Greder¹⁹, H. Greenlee⁴⁹, Z. D. Greenwood⁵⁹, E. M. Gregores⁴, G. Grenier²⁰, Ph. Gris¹³, J.-F. Grivaz¹⁶, A. Grohsjean²⁵, S. Grünendahl⁴⁹, M. W. Grünewald³⁰, F. Guo⁷¹, J. Guo⁷¹, G. Gutierrez⁴⁹, P. Gutierrez⁷⁴, A. Haas⁶⁹, N. J. Hadley⁶⁰, P. Haefner²⁵, S. Hagopian⁴⁸, J. Haley⁶⁷, I. Hall⁶⁴, R. E. Hall⁴⁶, L. Han⁷, K. Harder⁴⁴, A. Harel⁷⁰, J. M. Hauptman⁵⁶, J. Hays⁴³, T. Hebbeker²¹, D. Hedin⁵¹, J. G. Hegeman³⁴, A. P. Heinson⁴⁷, U. Heintz⁶¹, C. Hensel^22,**, K. Herner⁶³, G. Hesketh⁶², M. D. Hildreth⁵⁴, R. Hirosky⁸⁰, T. Hoang⁴⁸, J. D. Hobbs⁷¹, B. Hoeneisen¹², M. Hohlfeld²², S. Hossain⁷⁴, P. Houben³⁴, Y. Hu⁷¹, Z. Hubacek¹⁰, N. Huske¹⁷, V. Hynek¹⁰, I. Iashvili⁶⁸, R. Illingworth⁴⁹, A. S. Ito⁴⁹, S. Jabeen⁶¹, M. Jaffré¹⁶, S. Jain⁷⁴, K. Jakobs²³, D. Jamin¹⁵, C. Jarvis⁶⁰, R. Jesik⁴³, K. Johns⁴⁵, C. Johnson⁶⁹, M. Johnson⁴⁹, D. Johnston⁶⁶, A. Jonckheere⁴⁹, P. Jonsson⁴³, A. Juste⁴⁹, E. Kajfasz¹⁵, D. Karmanov³⁸, P. A. Kasper⁴⁹, I. Katsanos⁶⁶, V. Kaushik⁷⁷, R. Kehoe⁷⁸, S. Kermiche¹⁵, N. Khalatyan⁴⁹, A. Khanov⁷⁵, A. Kharchilava⁶⁸, Y. N. Kharzheev³⁶, D. Khatidze⁶⁹, T. J. Kim³¹, M. H. Kirby⁵², M. Kirsch²¹, B. Klima⁴⁹, J. M. Kohli²⁷, J.-P. Konrath²³, A. V. Kozelov³⁹, J. Kraus⁶⁴, T. Kuhl²⁴, A. Kumar⁶⁸, A. Kupco¹¹, T. Kurča²⁰, V. A. Kuzmin³⁸, J. Kvita⁹, F. Lacroix¹³, D. Lam⁵⁴, S. Lammers⁵³, G. Landsberg⁷⁶, P. Lebrun²⁰, W. M. Lee⁴⁹, A. Leflat³⁸, J. Lellouch^17,d, J. Li⁷⁷, L. Li⁴⁷, Q. Z. Li⁴⁹, S. M. Lietti⁵, J. K. Lim³¹, D. Lincoln⁴⁹, J. Linnemann⁶⁴, V. V. Lipaev³⁹, R. Lipton⁴⁹, Y. Liu⁷, Z. Liu⁶, A. Lobodenko⁴⁰, M. Lokajicek¹¹, P. Love⁴², H. J. Lubatti⁸¹, R. Luna-Garcia^33,††, A. L. Lyon⁴⁹, A. K. A. Maciel², D. Mackin⁷⁹, P. Mättig²⁶, A. Magerkurth⁶³, P. K. Mal⁸¹, H. B. Malbouisson³, S. Malik⁶⁶, V. L. Malyshev³⁶, Y. Maravin⁵⁸, B. Martin¹⁴, R. McCarthy⁷¹, C. L. McGivern⁵⁷, M. M. Meijer³⁵, A. Melnitchouk⁶⁵, L. Mendoza⁸, P. G. Mercadante⁵, M. Merkin³⁸, K. W. Merritt⁴⁹, A. Meyer²¹, J. Meyer^22,**, J. Mitrevski⁶⁹, R. K. Mommsen⁴⁴, N. K. Mondal²⁹, R. W. Moore⁶, T. Moulik⁵⁷, G. S. Muanza¹⁵, M. Mulhearn⁶⁹, O. Mundal²², L. Mundim³, E. Nagy¹⁵, M. Naimuddin⁴⁹, M. Narain⁷⁶, H. A. Neal⁶³, J. P. Negret⁸, P. Neustroev⁴⁰, H. Nilsen²³, H. Nogima³, S. F. Novaes⁵, T. Nunnemann²⁵, D. C. O’Neil⁶, G. Obrant⁴⁰, C. Ochando¹⁶, D. Onoprienko⁵⁸, J. Orduna³³, N. Oshima⁴⁹, N. Osman⁴³, J. Osta⁵⁴, R. Otec¹⁰, G. J. Otero y Garzón¹, M. Owen⁴⁴, M. Padilla⁴⁷, P. Padley⁷⁹, M. Pangilinan⁷⁶, N. Parashar⁵⁵, S.-J. Park^22,**, S. K. Park³¹, J. Parsons⁶⁹, R. Partridge⁷⁶, N. Parua⁵³, A. Patwa⁷², G. Pawloski⁷⁹, B. Penning²³, M. Perfilov³⁸, K. Peters⁴⁴, Y. Peters⁴⁴, P. Pétroff¹⁶, R. Piegaia¹, J. Piper⁶⁴, M.-A. Pleier²², P. L. M. Podesta-Lerma^33,‡‡, V. M. Podstavkov⁴⁹, Y. Pogorelov⁵⁴, M.-E. Pol², P. Polozov³⁷, A. V. Popov³⁹, C. Potter⁶, W. L. Prado da Silva³, H. B. Prosper⁴⁸, S. Protopopescu⁷², J. Qian⁶³, A. Quadt^22,**, B. Quinn⁶⁵, A. Rakitine⁴², M. S. Rangel¹⁶, K. Ranjan²⁸, P. N. Ratoff⁴², P. Renkel⁷⁸, P. Rich⁴⁴, M. Rijssenbeek⁷¹, I. Ripp-Baudot¹⁹, F. Rizatdinova⁷⁵, S. Robinson⁴³, R. F. Rodrigues³, M. Rominsky⁷⁴, C. Royon¹⁸, P. Rubinov⁴⁹, R. Ruchti⁵⁴, G. Safronov³⁷, G. Sajot¹⁴, A. Sánchez-Hernández³³, M. P. Sanders¹⁷, B. Sanghi⁴⁹, G. Savage⁴⁹, L. Sawyer⁵⁹, T. Scanlon⁴³, D. Schaile²⁵, R. D. Schamberger⁷¹, Y. Scheglov⁴⁰, H. Schellman⁵², T. Schliephake²⁶, S. Schlobohm⁸¹, C. Schwanenberger⁴⁴, R. Schwienhorst⁶⁴, J. Sekaric⁴⁸, H. Severini⁷⁴, E. Shabalina⁵⁰, M. Shamim⁵⁸, V. Shary¹⁸, A. A. Shchukin³⁹, R. K. Shivpuri²⁸, V. Siccardi¹⁹, V. Simak¹⁰, V. Sirotenko⁴⁹, P. Skubic⁷⁴, P. Slattery⁷⁰, D. Smirnov⁵⁴, G. R. Snow⁶⁶, J. Snow⁷³, S. Snyder⁷², S. Söldner-Rembold⁴⁴, L. Sonnenschein²¹, A. Sopczak⁴², M. Sosebee⁷⁷, K. Soustruznik⁹, B. Spurlock⁷⁷, J. Stark¹⁴, V. Stolin³⁷, D. A. Stoyanova³⁹, J. Strandberg⁶³, S. Strandberg⁴¹, M. A. Strang⁶⁸, E. Strauss⁷¹, M. Strauss⁷⁴, R. Ströhmer²⁵, D. Strom⁵², L. Stutte⁴⁹, S. Sumowidagdo⁴⁸, P. Svoisky³⁵, M. Takahashi⁴⁴, A. Tanasijczuk¹, W. Taylor⁶, B. Tiller²⁵, F. Tissandier¹³, M. Titov¹⁸, V. V. Tokmenin³⁶, I. Torchiani²³, D. Tsybychev⁷¹, B. Tuchming¹⁸, C. Tully⁶⁷, P. M. Tuts⁶⁹, R. Unalan⁶⁴, L. Uvarov⁴⁰, S. Uvarov⁴⁰, S. Uzunyan⁵¹, B. Vachon⁶, P. J. van den Berg³⁴, R. Van Kooten⁵³, W. M. van Leeuwen³⁴, N. Varelas⁵⁰, E. W. Varnes⁴⁵, I. A. Vasilyev³⁹, P. Verdier²⁰, L. S. Vertogradov³⁶, M. Verzocchi⁴⁹, D. Vilanova¹⁸, P. Vint⁴³, P. Vokac¹⁰, M. Voutilainen^66,a, R. Wagner⁶⁷, H. D. Wahl⁴⁸, M. H. L. S. Wang⁴⁹, J. Warchol⁵⁴, G. Watts⁸¹, M. Wayne⁵⁴, G. Weber²⁴, M. Weber^49,b, L. Welty-Rieger⁵³, A. Wenger^23,c, M. Wetstein⁶⁰, A. White⁷⁷, D. Wicke²⁶, M. R. J. Williams⁴², G. W. Wilson⁵⁷, S. J. Wimpenny⁴⁷, M. Wobisch⁵⁹, D. R. Wood⁶², T. R. Wyatt⁴⁴, Y. Xie⁷⁶, C. Xu⁶³, S. Yacoob⁵², R. Yamada⁴⁹, W.-C. Yang⁴⁴, T. Yasuda⁴⁹, Y. A. Yatsunenko³⁶, Z. Ye⁴⁹, H. Yin⁷, K. Yip⁷², H. D. Yoo⁷⁶, S. W. Youn⁵², J. Yu⁷⁷, C. Zeitnitz²⁶, S. Zelitch⁸⁰, T. Zhao⁸¹, B. Zhou⁶³, J. Zhu⁷¹, M. Zielinski⁷⁰, D. Zieminska⁵³, L. Zivkovic⁶⁹, V. Zutshi⁵¹, and E. G. Zverev³⁸ (D0 Collaboration)
¹Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
²LAFEX, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
³Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
⁴Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, Brazil
⁵Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
⁶University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
⁷University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People’s Republic of China
⁸Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
⁹Center for Particle Physics, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
¹⁰Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
¹¹Center for Particle Physics, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
¹²Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
¹³LPC, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont, France
¹⁴LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
¹⁵CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
¹⁶LAL, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Orsay, France
¹⁷LPNHE, IN2P3/CNRS, Universités Paris VI and VII, Paris, France
¹⁸CEA, Irfu, SPP, Saclay, France
¹⁹IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
²⁰IPNL, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France and Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
²¹III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
²²Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
²³Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
²⁴Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
²⁵Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
²⁶Fachbereich Physik, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
²⁷Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
²⁸Delhi University, Delhi, India
²⁹Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
³⁰University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
³¹Korea Detector Laboratory, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
³²SungKyunKwan University, Suwon, Korea
³³CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico
³⁴FOM-Institute NIKHEF and University of Amsterdam/NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
³⁵Radboud University Nijmegen/NIKHEF, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
³⁶Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
³⁷Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
³⁸Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
³⁹Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
⁴⁰Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
⁴¹Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
⁴²Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
⁴³Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
⁴⁴University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
⁴⁵University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
⁴⁶California State University, Fresno, California 93740, USA
⁴⁷University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
⁴⁸Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
⁴⁹Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
⁵⁰University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
⁵¹Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
⁵²Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
⁵³Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
⁵⁴University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
⁵⁵Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana 46323, USA
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⁵⁸Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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⁶²Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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⁶⁴Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
⁶⁵University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
⁶⁶University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
⁶⁷Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
⁶⁸State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
⁶⁹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
⁷⁰University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁷¹State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
⁷²Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
⁷³Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma 73050, USA
⁷⁴University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
⁷⁵Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
⁷⁶Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
⁷⁷University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
⁷⁸Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
⁷⁹Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
⁸⁰University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA
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See Also: T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration, Observation of Electroweak Single Top-Quark Production, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092002 (2009).