{
  "id": "hep-ph/0510224",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-10-17T21:56:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-11-04T17:52:20.000Z",
  "title": "Angular correlations in single-top-quark and Wjj production at next-to-leading order",
  "authors": [
    "Zack Sullivan"
  ],
  "comment": "22 pages, 23 figs, RevTex4, fixed typos, to appear in Phys. Rev. D",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D72:094034,2005",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.72.094034",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "I demonstrate that the correlated angular distributions of final-state particles in both single-top-quark production and the dominant Wjj backgrounds can be reliably predicted. Using these fully-correlated angular distributions, I propose a set of cuts that can improve the single-top-quark discovery significance by 25%, and the signal to background ratio by a factor of 3 with very little theoretical uncertainty. Up to a subtlety in t-channel single-top-quark production, leading-order matrix elements are shown to be sufficient to reproduce the next-to-leading order correlated distributions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2005-11-04T17:52:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "13.85.Lg",
      "12.38.Bx",
      "14.65.Ha",
      "13.87.Ce"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "next-to-leading order",
      "angular correlations",
      "wjj production",
      "t-channel single-top-quark production",
      "single-top-quark discovery significance"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 22,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 695371
    }
  }
}