Related papers: Single Top Physics at Hadron Colliders
The D0 collaboration reports direct evidence for electroweak production of single top quarks through the t-channel exchange of a virtual W boson. This is the first analysis to isolate an individual single top quark production channel. We…
The top quark has been discovered in 1995 at the CDF and DO experiments located in the Tevatron ring at the Fermilab laboratory. After more than a decade the Tevatron collider, with its center-of-mass energy collisions of 1.96 TeV, is still…
With the full Tevatron Run II and early LHC data samples, the opportunity for furthering our understanding of the properties of the top quark has never been more promising. Although the current knowledge of the top quark comes largely from…
Recent measurements of top quark pair and single top production are presented. The results include inclusive cross sections as well as studies of differential distributions. Evidence for single top quark production in association with a…
New physics associated with the heavy top quark can affect top quark production and the partial decay width of $Z \rightarrow b \bar b$. In this paper, we examine the correlated effects of possible new physics on ${R_b}$ measured at LEP I…
A search for single top quark production is performed in the full ep data sample collected by the H1 experiment at HERA, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 474 pb^-1. Decays of top quarks into a b quark and a W boson with…
We review the status of heavy quark physics at the Fermilab Tevatron collider by summarizing recent top quark and B physics results from CDF and DO. In particular, we discuss the measurement of the top quark mass and top production cross…
We investigate the ability of single top quark production via qq'-> squark->tb and q \bar q'->slepton->t\bar b at the LHC and Tevatron to probe the strength of R-parity violating couplings in the minimal supersymmetric model. We found that…
The theoretical status of MSSM particle production at the hadron colliders Tevatron and LHC is reviewed, including next-to-leading order supersymmetric QCD corrections. The higher-order corrections significantly reduce the theoretical…
We report the first observation of single-top-quark production in the s channel through the combination of the CDF and D0 measurements of the cross section in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data…
We present a new determination of the top-quark mass $m_t$ based on the experimental data from the Tevatron and the LHC for single-top hadro-production. We use the inclusive cross sections of $s$- and $t$-channel top-quark production to…
We study the s-channel production of a single top squark in hadron collisions through an R-parity-violating mechanism, examining in detail the case in which the squark decays through an R-parity-conserving process into a bottom quark, a…
The measurement of the single top-quark production cross section in hadron collisions at the Tevatron and the LHC can be used to determine the absolute value of the CKM matrix element V_tb without assuming the unitarity of the CKM matrix.…
This is a writeup of a plenary talk given at the conference {\it HCP 2012} held November 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. This writeup reviews recent theoretical developments in the following areas of top quark physics at hadron colliders: (a) the…
We study the production of the Higgs boson in association with a single top quark at hadron colliders. The cross sections for the three production processes (t-channel, s-channel, and W-associated) at both the Tevatron and the LHC are…
High-energy photon-proton interactions at the LHC offer interesting possibilities for the study of the electroweak sector up to TeV scale and searches for processes beyond the Standard Model. An analysis of the W associated single top…
We calculate the MSSM $O(\alpha)$ corrections to the main production processes of strong top pair production at the upgraded Tevatron and at the LHC. In exploring the potential of future hadron colliders for performing electroweak precision…
We present details of a search for electroweak production of single top quarks in the electron+jets and muon+jets decay channels. The measurements use \~90 pb^-1 of data from Run 1 of the Fermilab Tevatron collider, collected at 1.8 TeV…
The CMS and ATLAS experiments have performed detailed studies on the electroweakly produced top quarks at the LHC. These studies range from accurate measurements of the cross section and $|V_{\rm tb}|$ in different production modes to…
At the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab, a large number of top quarks have been produced in the ongoing run. The CDF and DZero collaborations have made first measurements of the ttbar cross section in several decay channels, and have measured…