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This work studies the associated production of a top-quark pair with a $W$, $Z$, or Higgs boson at the LHC. Predictions for the total cross sections as well as for several differential distributions of the massive particles in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Rikkert Frederix , Davide Pagani , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Ioannis Tsinikos

We study the charge asymmetry between the $t$ and $\bar t$ quark at the LHC, when they are produced in association with a $W$ boson. Though sizably reducing the cross section with respect to the inclusive production, requiring a $W$ boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Maltoni , M. L. Mangano , I. Tsinikos , M. Zaro

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 Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Maltoni , K. Paul , T. Stelzer , S. Willenbrock

Top quarks, the most massive particles in the standard model, attract considerable attention since they decay before hadronizing. This presents physicists with a unique opportunity to directly investigate their properties. In this letter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Mira Varma , O. K. Baker

In this paper we study new-physics contributions to the top-quark decay $t \to b \bar b c$. We search for ways of detecting such new physics via measurements at the LHC. As top quarks are mainly produced at the LHC in $t \bar t$ production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-02 Ken Kiers , Pratishruti Saha , Alejandro Szynkman , David London , Samuel Judge , Jordan Melendez

The Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab with its centre of mass energy of 1.96 TeV allows for pair production of top quarks and the study of top quark decay properties. This report reflects the current status of measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 Marc-André Pleier

The presented results on top quark properties include measurements of the top quark pair charge asymmetry, the top quark polarization in pair production and single top production, the W helicity in top quark decays. Results of spin…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-06 Kelly Beernaert

A large number of top quarks will be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for Run II period. This will allow us to measure the rare processes from the top sector in great details. We present the study of the top-quark pair production…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-28 Young Kwon Jo , Su Yong Choi , Tae Jeong Kim , Youn Jung Roh

Hyperon-antihyperon pairs produced in high energy electron-positron annihilation constitute a naturally spin-entangled system in the high energy regime. Recently, a probabilistic amplification of entanglement, termed autodistillation, has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Cong Li , Xu Cao , Ai-Qiang Guo , Chun-Xu Yu , Hong-Wei Zhang , Zhe Zhang

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

A search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark (tH) is performed using the decay $\text{H} \to \text{b}\bar{\text{b}}$. This Higgs boson production mode is sensitive to the coupling modifiers of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-21 Denise Mueller

Quantum entanglement has now been demonstrated in several hadronic systems, revealing that non-classical spin correlations survive even through the strong-interaction hadronization process. To date, however, all studies have focused…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-19 Aihong Tang

Top-quark decays are sensitive probes of light charged Higgs bosons ($H^\pm$) due to the sizable $t\bar t$ production cross section at the LHC in conjunction with their distinct experimental signatures. While dedicated ATLAS and CMS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Saiyad Ashanujjaman , Andreas Crivellin , Siddharth P. Maharathy , Bruce Mellado

The top quark, being the heaviest elementary fermion known in the Standard model, has the largest coupling to the Higgs boson. The associated production of top quarks with the Higgs boson, either in pairs (t$\bar{\rm{t}}$H) or singly (tH),…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-19 Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

The measurement of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark is one important goal of particle physics after the discovery of the Higgs boson. There are two processes that offer the possibility to directly measure the Yukawa coupling of the top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-23 Isabel Nitsche

The cross section of the $t\bar{t}Z$ and $t\bar{t}W$ processes are measured in a simultaneous fit using 36.1 $\text{fb}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-11 Sebastian Heer

We study the production of a charged Higgs boson in association with a W boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in the context of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. This production mechanism is particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Barrientos Bendezu , B. A. Kniehl

Top quarks represent unique high-energy systems since their spin correlations can be measured, thus allowing to study fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics with qubits at high-energy colliders. We present here the general framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Yoav Afik , Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

The top quark forward-backward asymmetry measured at the Fermilab Tevatron collider deviates from the standard model prediction. A W^prime boson model is described, where the coupling W^prime-t-d is fixed by the tt_bar forward-backward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel Duffty , Zack Sullivan , Hao Zhang

We study the sensitivity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to top quark chromomagnetic (CMDM) and chromoelectric (CEDM) dipole moments and $Wtb$ effective couplings in single-top production in association with a $W^-$ boson, followed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-02 Saurabh D. Rindani , Pankaj Sharma , Anthony W. Thomas