This page describe the physics analyses that are underway. The topics listed here are identified with a graduate student who will make the analysis the topic of his or her thesis. I am investigating whether single top production can be detected in the 119 inverse picobarns of data collected in CDF Runs Ia and Ib. The better statistics of the Run II dataset will permit full exploitation of the groundwork laid in this analysis.
Work is at an early stage.
Variables of interest include the standard jet and lepton Et's along with fancier combinations of variables exploiting the distinctive kinematic features of single top events. Then applying these cuts to CDF data will provide insight into their rejection power. Other techniques, including b-tagging, will be brought to bear as this analysis develops. My thesis topic is the study of top quark decay product angular distribution. According to the standard model, the top quark decay can be described completely by four angles.