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Could Sleuth have found the top quark in Tevatron Run I, if we had not known about the top quarks existence?

April 26, 2017existence known Quark run sleuth tevatron

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Could Sleuth have found the top quark in Tevatron Run I, if we had not known about the top quarks existence?

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Running pseudo experiments in which top quark pair production is removed from the Standard Model background, Sleuth is able to find a discovery-level excess in the Wbbjj final state in a Run II integrated luminosity comparable to that accumulated in Tevatron Run I.