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Physics of Single-Top Quark Production at Hadron Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss the physics of single-top quark production and decay at hadron colliders, such as the Tevatron, the \tevstar~and the LHC. Our study includes how to measure the mass and the width of the top quark produced from a {\hbox{single-tt}} or a single-tˉ\bar t process. We also show how to probe new physics by studying the couplings of tt-b{b}-WW and show what can be improved from measuring the production rate of single-top events. We also discuss how to probe CP properties of the top quark by measuring the single-top production rate. Finally, we present a Monte Carlo study on the detection of single-top events in hadron collisions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508278,
  title  = {Physics of Single-Top Quark Production at Hadron Colliders},
  author = {Douglas O. Carlson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508278},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Thesis, 102 pages, Latex, needs 45 figures (not included). All Tex files and the associated analysis package ONETOP may be obtained via anonymous ftp at ftp://cteq14.pa.msu.edu/pub/carlson_d/