Related papers: Single top quark photoproduction at the LHC
The CDF and D0 experiments have measured single and double top quark production in ppbar collisions at the Tevatron at a centre-of-mass energy of 1.96TeV. The applied methods are used to constrain properties of the top quark and to search…
We investigate the potentialities offered by the study of lepton-pair production in ultraperipheral collisions at a fixed-target experiment using the proton and ion LHC beams. In these collisions, exclusive or semi-exclusive lepton-pair…
A search for the production of single-top-quarks in association with missing energy performed in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment is presented. No deviation from the Standard…
The sensitivities to anomalous quartic photon couplings at the Large Hadron Collider are estimated using diphoton production via photon fusion. The tagging of the protons proves to be a very powerful tool to suppress the background and…
Overview on top couplings measurements is presented, and the prospects of future measurements are discussed. The coupling of top to the W boson can be examined either by looking at the decay of the top quark or from single top quark…
Collisions of particles at the energy frontier can reveal new particles and forces via localized excesses. However, the initial observation may be consistent with a large variety of theoretical models, especially in sectors with new top…
We study the single production of top quarks in $e^+e^-, ep$ and $pp$ collisions in the context of unparticle physics through the Flavor Violating (FV) unparticle vertices and compute the total cross sections for single top production as…
The observation of the production of four top quarks in proton-proton collisions is reported, based on a data sample collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016-2018 at the CERN LHC and corresponding to an…
Single top quark is mainly produced through the $t$-channel W boson exchange $q + b \rightarrow q' + t$ at LHC. This process probes Wtb vertex directly and can be used to measure the CKM matrix element $V_{tb}$ or to constrain the bottom…
A search for anomalous single-top production, ep -> etX, t -> Wb, has been made with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 130 pb^-1. No evidence for top-quark production was found in either the leptonic or the…
We examine the possibility that a new strong interaction is accessible to the Tevatron and the LHC. In an effective theory approach, we consider a scenario with a new color-octet interaction with strong couplings to the top quark, as well…
We present results for the production of a Z boson in association with single top at next-to-leading order (NLO), including the decay of the top quark and the Z boson. This electroweak process gives rise to the trilepton signature l+l-l'+-…
The potential of the LHC for investigation of anomalous top quark interactions with gluon ($tug,tcg$) through the production of $tW$-channel of single top quark is studied. In the Standard Model, the single top quarks in the $tW$-channel…
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will provide a huge amount of top-antitop events, making the LHC a top quark factory, producing 1 tt pair per second at a luminosity of 10^33cm-2s-1. A large top quark sample will be available from the start…
A search for standard model production of four top quarks ($\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}})$ is reported using events containing at least three leptons (e, $\mu$) or a same-sign lepton pair. The events are…
In this paper, we investigate the prospects of measuring the strong and weak dipole moments of the top quark at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Measurements of these couplings provide an excellent opportunity to probe new physics…
We study single top production in high energy $e\gamma$ collisions. The process $e\gamma\to\nu b\bar t$ can serve as a unique tool for measuring the $Wtb$ coupling. We show that allowing for realistic luminosity and backgrounds, the size of…
We have studied the production of single isolated prompt photons in high energy proton-proton collisions at the RHIC ($\sqrt{s}$= 200 GeV) and the LHC ($\sqrt{s}$= 7 TeV) energies within the frame work of perturbative QCD upto next-to…
We consider the production of a single top quark in association with a Higgs boson at the LHC. In particular, we compute the cross sections for the processes $ p p \to t h j$, $t h b$, $t h W$, $t h j j$, $t h j b$, $t h W j$, $t h W b$ in…
We are considering a possibility for detecting non-perturbative effect in process of top pair production in association with a high $p_T$ photon. Starting from previous results on two solutions for a spontaneous generation of wouldbe…