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Top quark pair production at photon-photon colliders is studied in low scale quantum gravity scenario. From the dependence of the cross sections on the spin configuration of the top quark and anti-quark, we introduce a new observable, top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kang Young Lee , Seong Chan Park , H. S. Song , Jeonhyeon Song , Chaehyun Yu

Violations of the Lorentz and CPT symmetries can appear as observable effects in the direct production of top quarks and their subsequent decays. Earlier results for the $q\bar{q}$ production process for $t\bar{t}$ pairs have been extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-26 M. S. Berger

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

We review the asymmetries in top quark pair production at the Tevatron and the LHC. We summarize the experimental measurements and the interpretations of a possible excess in terms of new physics. We also review other top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , D. Amidei , A. Juste , M. Perez-Victoria

The production of four top quarks ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}t\bar{t}}$) is studied with LHC proton-proton collision data samples collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, and corresponding to integrated luminosities of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-28 CMS Collaboration

Spin correlations in the production of top-antitop quark ($t\bar{t}$) pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are an experimentally verified prediction of the Standard Model. In this paper, we compute the full spin density matrix for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 Baptiste Ravina , Ethan Simpson , James Howarth

We consider top-antitop quark ($t{\bar t}$) production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with subsequent decay into dileptonic and lepton plus jets final states. We present a set of leptonic angular correlations and distributions with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Werner Bernreuther , Dennis Heisler , Zong-Guo Si

Top quark pairs are produced with strongly correlated spins in the partonic reactions $q\bar{q}\to t\bar{t}$ and $gg\to t\bar{t}$. A complete description of these effects in terms of the spin density matrix of the $t\bar{t}$ system in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Arnd Brandenburg

As the most massive particle in the Standard Model, the top quark's exceptionally short lifetime preserves its spin polarization information through direct decay, making it an ideal system for probing quantum correlations in high-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Duo-Duo Chen , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

The Large Hadron Collider provides a unique opportunity to study quantum entanglement and violation of Bell inequalities at the highest energy available today. In this paper, we will investigate these quantum correlations with top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-08 Zhongtian Dong , Dorival Gonçalves , Kyoungchul Kong , Alberto Navarro

The top quark has been discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 experiments located at the two beam-crossing points at the Tevatron ppbar collider. The top quark is the most massive of the known elementary particles. At hadron-hadron colliders,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-13 Fabrizio Margaroli

The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s[NN]) = 8.16 TeV. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-02 CMS Collaboration

After the discovery of the top quark more than 20 years ago, top quark production cross sections have been meticulously studied. The rich variety of results from the LHC experiments are complemented with increasingly accurate theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-26 Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

Measurements of the top quark production cross section in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. The measurements require no, one or two electrons or muons in the final state (single…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-10-27 John David Morris

Cross section measurements of top quark production in association with a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\,\mathrm{TeV}$ at the CERN LHC provide an important probe of the electroweak top quark couplings. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-03 Joscha Knolle

Results from inclusive and differential measurements of the production cross sections for top quarks in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV are compared to predictions at next-to-leading and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sebastian Naumann-Emme

There has been an increasing interest in exploring quantities associated with quantum information at colliders. We perform a detailed analysis describing how to measure the quantum discord in the top anti-top quantum state at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Tao Han , Matthew Low , Navin McGinnis , Shufang Su

We compute QCD corrections to the production of a ttbar pair in association with a hard photon at the Tevatron and the LHC. This process allows a direct measurement of the top quark electromagnetic couplings that, at the moment, are only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Kirill Melnikov , Andreas Scharf , Markus Schulze

Top quark pair production is presented at a polarized Muon Collider above the threshold region. The off-diagonal spin basis is the natural basis for this discussion as the top quark pairs are produced in an essentially unique spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen Parke

Recent studies have shown that observing entangled particle states at a particle collider like Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and testing violation of Bell inequality in them can open up new research area for high energy physics study. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Alim Ruzi , Youpeng Wu , Ran Ding , Qiang Li