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- From: st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TOP in TIME
- Message-ID: <MfH=nXW00WB3ALSHVE@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 13:29:39 GMT
- Organization: Doctoral student, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <93006.213136WALID@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
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- I'm not a CDF member, but am resident currently at Fermilab.
- From what I have heard, CDF has shown these events, but not claimed for
- sure that they are top.
-
- Background to the decay mode as mentioned is fairly low. Two W's and two
- b jets in the same event is a pretty good signal for top which can't be
- faked. Other decay modes where the W decays to quarks (jets) have much
- more background, but are more common.
-
- Steve Timm
-