Combination of CDF and D0 Measurements of the Single Top Production Cross Section

Abstract

We report a combination of the CDF and D0 measurements of the inclusive single top quark production cross section in the s- and t-channels, {sigma}{sub s+t}, in p{bar p} collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The total integrated luminosity included in CDF's analysis is 3.2 fb{sup -1} and D0's analysis has 2.3 fb{sup -1}. A Bayesian analysis is used to extract the cross section from the distributions of multivariate discriminants provided by the collaborations. For a top quark mass m{sub t} = 170 GeV/c{sup 2}, we measure a cross section of 2.76{sub -0.47}{sup +0.58} pb. We extract the CKM matrix element |V{sub tb}| = 0.88 {+-} 0.07 with a 95% C.L. lower limit of |V{sub tb}| > 0.77.