2.2fb Single-Top Search Using a Multivariate Likelihood Function Technique

Sarah Budd, Catalin Ciobanu, Thomas Junk, Tony Liss, Michael Wren
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fermilab ,University of Paris


Documentation

The technique is described in our analysis public note for the 2.2/fb dataset..

Significance using 2 and 3 jet bin t-channel Likelihood Functions

Cross Section Measurment

Background Estimate

Systematics

2-jet bin, 1 tag


3-jet bin, 1 tag

3-jet bin, 2 tag

JES systematics

Plots

Plots add all lepton categories together. All model contributions have been scaled to match the data.

t-channel 2 and 3 jet bin Likelihood Functions and P-Value

2-jet bin



3-jet bin



P-Value


Linearity Scan


Cross Section Measurment


2 jet bin Likelihood input variables and functions

3 jet bin Likelihood input variables and functions


Contact the authors: sbudd@uiuc.edu, catutza@uiuc.edu, trj@uiuc.edu, tml@uiuc.edu, wren@uiuc.edu