Measurement of the Single-Top-Quark Production Cross Section at CDF

We report a measurement of the single-top-quark production cross section in $2.2\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of $p\overline{p}$ collision data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$. Candidate events are classified as signal-like by three parallel analyses which use likelihood, matrix element, and neural network discriminants. These results are combined in order to improve the sensitivity. We observe a signal consistent with the standard model prediction, but inconsistent with the background-only model by 3.7 standard deviations with a median expected sensitivity of 4.9 standard deviations. We measure a cross section of ${2.2}_{\ensuremath{-}0.6}^{+0.7}(\mathrm{stat}+\mathrm{syst})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{pb}$, extract the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix-element value $|{V}_{tb}|={0.88}_{\ensuremath{-}0.12}^{+0.13}(\mathrm{stat}+\mathrm{syst})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.07(\mathrm{theory})$, and set the limit $|{V}_{tb}|>0.66$ at the 95% C.L.

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