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M. and Zeng, Y. and Zhou, C. and Zucchelli, S. and CDF and Collaboration", journal = "Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Index", year = "2013", volume = "110", number = "7", publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC", issn = "0094-0003", doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.071801", abstract = "The first observation of the production of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) jet in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV is reported. The analysis uses data corresponding to 4.3 fb(-1), recorded with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Charm quark candidates are selected through the identification of an electron or muon from charm-hadron semileptonic decay within a hadronic jet, and a Wc signal is observed with a significance of 5.7 standard deviations. The production cross section sigma(Wc) (p(Tc) > 20 GeV/c, vertical bar eta(c)vertical bar < 1.5) x B(W -> l nu) is measured to be 13.6(-3.1)(+3.4) pb and is in agreement with theoretical expectations. From this result the magnitude of the quark-mixing matrix element V-cs is derived, vertical bar V-cs vertical bar = 1.08 +/- 0.16 along with a lower limit of vertical bar V-cs vertical bar > 0.71 at the 95% confidence level, assuming that the Wc production through c to s quark coupling is dominant. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.071801" }