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We study the quantum properties of top quark pairs in lepton colliders with unpolarised beams, including spin correlations, entanglement, and violation of Bell inequalities. We present analytical results in the SM and in the SMEFT and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Fabio Maltoni , Claudio Severi , Simone Tentori , Eleni Vryonidou

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-09-17 Jahred Adelman , Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez , Yang Bai , Matthew Baumgart , Richard Keith Ellis , Sasha Khanov , Andrey Loginov , Marcel Vos

Properties of the top-quark are presented, with emphasis on the most recent ATLAS measurements of the mass and $t\bar{t}$ spin correlations, obtained with proton-proton collision data collected at the Large Hadron Collider. Normalised…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-10 Markus Cristinziani

Top quark pair spin correlation measurements performed by the ATLAS experiment using $pp$ collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are summarized. Moreover, the measurement of a specific observable $D$ related to top quark pair spin…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Roman Lysak

The latest results on top quark physics, namely single top quark production cross sections, $W$-boson helicity and asymmetry measurements are used to probe the Lorentz structure of the $Wtb$ vertex. The increase of sensitivity to new…

The presence of the anomalous top quark flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions leads to the production of same-sign top quarks in proton-proton collisions. The results of a search for events with same-sign dileptons and b-jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-29 Reza Goldouzian

Top-antitop pairs produced at hadron colliders are largely unpolarized, but their spins are highly correlated. The structure of these correlations varies significantly over top production phase space, allowing very detailed tests of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew Baumgart , Brock Tweedie

Very recently, the CMS collaboration has reported a search for the production for a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson in association with a top quark pair ($t bar{t} H$) at the LHC Run-2 and a best fit $t bar{t} H$ yield of $1.5 pm 0.5$ times…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-19 Arindam Das , Nobuhito Maru , Nobuchika Okada

We investigate the prospects for discovering a top quark decaying into one light Higgs boson along with a charm quark in top quark pair production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A general two Higgs doublet model is adopted to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Chung Kao , Hai-Yang Cheng , Wei-Shu Hou , Joshua Sayre

The top quark decays before it hadronizes. Before its spin state can be changed in a process of strong interaction, it is directly transferred to the top quark decay products. The top quark spin can be deduced by studying angular…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Boris Lemmer

After the Higgs boson discovery in 2012, the investigation of its properties and compatibility with the standard model predictions is central to the physics program of the LHC experiments. Likewise, the study of the top quark is still…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez

Experimental measurements of the properties of the top quark have improved and will continue to improve significantly, with the excellent operation of the CDF and D0 experiments and the Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider at the Fermi National…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 Evelyn J. Thomson

Top spin correlation has been shown to be nontrivial in hadronic top-pair production, and can be realized by the asymmetries of the decay products of the top quark and antiquark. We show in this work that the top spin correlation is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kingman Cheung

We study top quark pair production in association with a Z boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and investigate the prospects of measuring the couplings of top quarks to the Z boson. To date these couplings have not been constrained in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-26 Raoul Röntsch , Markus Schulze

Top quarks produced in pairs are predicted to experience spin correlations. Due to the large ttbar statistics expected for the LHC, it should be possible to search for new physics effects in angular variables sensitive to these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Oscar Stål

In this article, recent studies of top quark properties in CMS are presented. The discussed analyses are measurements of the charge asymmetry, CP violation and jet mass, all carried out in final states of $\textrm{t}\bar{\textrm{t}}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-22 Dennis Schwarz

There is a growing interest in investigating top-quark systems using tools from quantum information theory. A key peculiarity of the top quark is that it decays before hadronization or spin decorrelation occurs, thereby preserving its spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-29 Saurabh Rai , Jitendra Kumar

Discovered in 1995 by CDF and D0 at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, the top quark remains interesting to test the Standard Model. Having collected more than 7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity with both experiments until today, several top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Yvonne Peters

Large top quark flavor changing through neutral currents is expected by many extensions of the standard model. Direct and indirect searches for flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) in the top quark decays to an up type quark (up,charm)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-14 Hoda Hesari , Hamzeh Khanpour , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The latest results of the ATLAS and CMS experiments on top quark property measurements and interpretations in the EFT framework are presented. All measurements are based on the full LHC Run 2 dataset of approximately $138\,\textrm{fb}^{-1}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-06-06 Jan van der Linden