Using Boosted Decision Trees to Search for Single Top Quark Events at the DZero Experiment

Ann Heinson

Using Boosted Decision Trees to Search for Single Top Quark Events at the DZero Experiment

ORAL

Abstract

We present the results of a search for single top quark production at the DZero experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider using boosted decision trees to separate signal from background.

May 3, 2009, 11:21 AM – May 3, 2009, 11:33 AM

Authors

Ann Heinson

University of California, Riverside