Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-16-2009
Abstract
We report on a search for the non-standard-model process u(c)+g→t using pp̄ collision data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector corresponding to 2.2fb-1. The candidate events are classified as signal-like or backgroundlike by an artificial neural network. The observed discriminant distribution yields no evidence for flavor-changing neutral current top-quark production, resulting in an upper limit on the production cross section σ(u(c)+g→t)<1.8pb at the 95% C.L. Using theoretical predictions we convert the cross section limit to upper limits on flavor-changing neutral current branching ratios: B(t→u+g)<3.9×10- 4 and B(t→c+g)<5.7×10-3. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review Letters
Recommended Citation
Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Álvarez González, B., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., Apollinari, G., Apresyan, A., Arisawa, T., Artikov, A., Ashmanskas, W., Attal, A., Aurisano, A., Azfar, F., Azzurri, P., Badgett, W., Barbaro-Galtieri, A., Barnes, V., Barnett, B., Bartsch, V., Bauer, G., Beauchemin, P., Bedeschi, F., Beecher, D., & Behari, S. (2009). Search for top-quark production via flavor-changing neutral currents in W+1 jet events at CDF. Physical Review Letters, 102 (15) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.151801