2011/04/19 by Zack Sullivan, Arjun Menon · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.83.091504
published as Phys.Rev.D83:091504,2011 · 3 pg., 2 figs, revtex, minor clarifications, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
arxiv published 2011/04/19 · arxiv created 2011/05/01 · arxiv updated 2011/05/01
We demonstrate the recent observation of a peak in the dijet invariant mass of the Wjj signal observed by the CDF Collaboration can be explained as the same upward fluctuation observed by CDF in single-top-quark production. In general, both t-channel and s-channel single-top-quark production produce kinematically induced peaks in the dijet spectrum. Since CDF used a Monte Carlo simulation to subtract the single-top backgrounds instead of data, a peak in the dijet spectrum is expected. The D0 Collaboration has a small upward fluctuation in their published t-channel data; and hence we predict they would see at most a small peak in the dijet invariant mass spectrum of Wjj if they follow the same procedure as CDF.