When can I see that note??

Tommaso wonders if he might see the note that we've been working on for SingleTop.

Here is the crazy bit. This is what will have to happen before this result makes it to the outside world (and Tommaso).

1. The Top group must approve the analysis. The comment period is currently scheduled to be done on the 5th of Feb. This is the large group of physicsist that are all working on top physics. Single Top is an analysis that takes place under this "umbrella".
2. The Editorial Board (EB) must sign off on the analysis. This is a small group of people choosen because a) they mostly aren't working on top analysis and b) their analysis work overlaps many of the techniques our analysis uses. They are expected to read the analysis very carefully and look hard for things we may have overlooked or mistakes on our part. This is probably the most careful scrutiny that this analysis will get on its road to becoming public. The EB can take as long as it likes to be satisfied with the analysis, but they must generate their initial list of questions one week after they receive it. A back-and-forth process begins, at that point, with us answering their questions as fast as we can, adjusting the analysis, etc. I would guess that the analysis will be re-run end-to-end several times in a very short period of time: it pays to automate with scripts to be ready for this. Because this analysis is heading for a paper, and not just conference presentation, it may take a little longer than normal; standards for a paper are higher than those for a conference presentation.
3. The collaboration as a whole is allowed to review the analysis. They have one week.
4. While step 3 is going on, we, along with the EB, will generate a set of public web pages that will contian the approved plots and results. This is the first thing that Tommaso will be allowed to look at.
5. Just before the collaboration comment period is up, a All-DZERO-Meeting talk will be given by one of the analyzers. This is another oportunity for the collaboration as a whole to give feed back (and ask questions, etc.).
6. Yay! The writeup and plots are made public. Anyone can check them out. For example, the last version of this analysis can be found on the web (writeup, plots). Note this writeup isn't the internal note that we've submitted for approval. It is an abreviated version! The internal note is never made officially public, though we may give it out to people who really want all the nitty-gritty details (the note is slow going).
7. While 5 and 6 are happening we will start writing a draft paper for submission to a refereed journal. Once that is done, we submit it to the EB again.
8. And once the EB signs off on it, the Collaboration has another chance to comment on it.
9. And we submit it to the journal!
10. The journal will send it out to several referees. Their comments will be returned to us, but made anonymous.
11. If the comments from the referees are favorable, and we answer all their questions, the paper will be scheduled for publication!
12. Profit!

So, Tommaso, if you want to see this current analysis, assuming everything goes well, the soonest it will see the light of day will be in time for the Moriond EW conference, March 5-12. You can look at the old version I've linked above, however, for background. I can't say, of course, exactly what we've done yet -- because it may change during the review process -- but the results are better. And it is better than this one (but it should be, we are using more data). And it isn't going to be a discovery yet, either. With luck that will be the next paper on this physics topic.