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We use the transverse momentum spectrum of leptons in the decay chain t-->bW with W-->l nu to measure the helicity of the W bosons in the top quark rest frame. Our measurement uses a ttbar sample isolated in 106 +/- 4 inverse picobarns of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 CDF Collaboration , T. Affolder

Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the $Z$-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks, which are currently constrained from LEP data to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Krzysztof Mękała , Daniel Jeans , Jürgen Reuter , Junping Tian , Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

We provide a framework for the analysis of the W boson helicity in the decay of the top quark that is based on a general effective tbW coupling. Four independent coupling coefficients can be uniquely determined by the fractions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Chuan-Ren Chen , F. Larios , C. -P. Yuan

We investigate the sensitivity of top-Higgs coupling by considering the associated vertex as CP phase ($\zeta_t$) dependent through the process $p\, e^- \to \bar t \,h \,\nu_e$ in the future Large Hadron electron collider. In particular the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-04 Baradhwaj Coleppa , Mukesh Kumar , Satendra Kumar , Bruce Mellado

We study resonances decaying to one top quark and one additional quark (b or c) at the low- luminosity and high-luminosity 14 TeV LHC and at a future 33 TeV hadron collider in the context of Snowmass 2013. A heavy W boson that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-02 Elizabeth Drueke , Brad Schoenrock , Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez , Reinhard Schwienhorst

Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the Z-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks could reveal potential discrepancies between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Krzysztof Mękała , Daniel Jeans , Junping Tian , Jürgen Reuter , Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

A search is presented for massive spin-1 Z' resonances decaying to a top quark and a heavy vector-like top quark partner T. The search is based on a 2.6 inverse femtobarns sample of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV collected with the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-09-20 CMS Collaboration

In this work, we study the new physics effects arising due the presence of anomalous $Wtb$ vertex through the semileptonic decay modes of the top-quark at the Large Hadron Collider. An estimate on the sensitivities of the aforementioned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Apurba Tiwari , Sudhir Kumar Gupta

We review and update current limits on possible anomalous couplings of the top quark to gauge bosons. We consider data from top quark decay (as encoded in the $W$-boson helicity fractions) and single-top production (in the $t$-, $s$- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-23 M. Fabbrichesi , M. Pinamonti , A. Tonero

A review of the recent results on measurements of top quark properties in single top quark events using data samples of proton proton collisions produced by the LHC at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV and collected by ATLAS and CMS detectors is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-01 Javier Jiménez Peña

The detection of the flavour content of jets produced from R-parity violating neutralino decays is investigated in the case where one baryon-number violating coupling dominates. Simulations are performed of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 B. C. Allanach , A. J. Barr , M. A. Parker , P. Richardson , B. R. Webber

The proposed Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), with center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}\approx 1.3$ TeV, provides a clean and sensitive environment to probe the top quark's neutral current interactions with the $Z$ boson via the process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Katlego Machethe , Pramod Sharma , Mukesh Kumar , Rafiqul Rahaman , Bruce Mellado

This paper presents the latest measurements of the properties of the top quark as determined by the DZero and CDF collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar collider. Both experiments have studied the all-hadronic decay mode of ttbar…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. P. Heinson

The energy dependence of the electroweak gauge couplings has not been measured above the weak scale. We propose that percent-level measurements of the energy dependence of $\alpha_{1,2}$ can be performed now at the LHC and at future higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniele S. M. Alves , Jamison Galloway , Joshua T. Ruderman , Jonathan R. Walsh

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 2015-10-29 Saurabh D. Rindani , Pankaj Sharma , Anthony W. Thomas

This paper employs the $H+b+\text{jets}$ signature in proton-proton collisions to explore the structure of the $Hb\bar{b}$ couplings.The focus of the analysis lies in the decay of the Higgs boson into a photon pair, taking into account both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Zahra Abdy , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We study the signatures for new TeV resonances that couple to top or bottom quarks both at the Tevatron Run II and at the LHC. We find that it is possible to study these resonances when they are produced in association with a pair of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Tao Han , German Valencia , Yili Wang

The prospects are explored for testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the top-quark sector. We present the relevant Lagrange density, discuss physical observables, and describe the signals to be sought in experiments. For top-antitop pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-02 Micheal S. Berger , Alan Kostelecky , Zhi Liu

The uncertainty of $t\bar{t}$ production cross section measurement at LHC is at a-few-percent level which still allows the stop pair production $\tilde{t}\tilde{t}^{*}$ with identical final states $2b+\ell+nj+{E}_{T}$. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Xue-Qian Li , Zong-Guo Si , Kai Wang , Liucheng Wang , Liangliang Zhang , Guohuai Zhu

We present a measurement of the helicity of the W boson produced in top quark decays using \ttbar ~decays in the $\ell+$jets and dilepton final states selected from a sample of 5.4 fb$^{-1}$ of collisions recorded using the D0 detector at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-14 Amitabha Das