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Study of single top production at high energy electron positron colliders

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-04-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The effect of single top production on the study of top quark pair production in future high energy electron--positron colliders is evaluated. The rate of the single top quark production process is sizeable throughout a large range of center-of-mass energies and cannot easily be distinguished from the dominant pair production process. We discuss the impact on the top quark mass extraction from a scan through the pair production threshold and the determination of top quark form factors in the continuum. These results advocate for the exploration of the inclusive e+eW+bWbˉe^+e^-\rightarrow W^+bW^-\bar{b} process, that includes both top quark pair and single top quark production.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2355,
  title  = {Study of single top production at high energy electron positron colliders},
  author = {Ignacio Garcia and Martin Perello and Eduardo Ros and Marcel Vos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2355},
  year   = {2015}
}