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Top quark pair production cross section has been measured at the Tevatron by CDF and $D\O$ collaborations using different channels and methods, in order to test standard model predictions, and to search for new physics hints affecting the…
Copious production of top-antitop quark pairs at hadron colliders has enabled various probes into the properties and interactions of top quarks. Among the various presently measured observables, the forward-backward asymmetry (FBA) in t…
The top-antitop quark (t t-bar) production cross section is measured in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.3 inverse femtobarns.…
Top quarks can be produced abundantly at hadron colliders like the Tevatron at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and a variety of measurements of top-quark properties have been gathered in the recent years from four…
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.…
We propose to extract the electric and weak dipole moments of the top quark via $t\bar t\gamma$ and $t\bar t Z$ productions at the CERN LHC. With the large numbers of events available at the LHC, these dipole moments can be measured to the…
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…
The vectorlike top partners $T$ are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In a simplified model including a single vectorlike $T$ quark with charge $2/3$, we investigate the process $pp \to Tj$ induced by the couplings…
Measurements of normalized differential top-quark-pair ($t\bar{t}$) production cross sections are performed using final states with two leptons ($e^+e^-$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, and $e^\pm\mu^\mp$) in proton-proton ($pp$) collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ =…
We have directly measured the ZZ-gamma and Z-gamma-gamma couplings by studying p pbar --> l+ l- gamma + X, (l = e, mu) events at the CM energy of 1.8$ TeV with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A fit to the transverse…
The first measurement of vector-boson production associated with a top quark-antiquark pair in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0…
We compare theoretical expectations for the observation of spin correlations in top quark pair production and decay at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In particular, we note that the differing top quark pair…
A measurement of the production cross-section for top quark pairs (t tbar) in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV is presented using data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events are selected in the single lepton…
This paper investigates a signature of Lorentz invariance violation with the $t\bar{t}$ production at the LHC and future hadron colliders. Possible deviations from the Lorentz symmetry remain poorly constrained in the top quark sector. With…
Single- and double-differential cross-section measurements are presented for the production of top-quark pairs, in the lepton + jets channel at particle and parton level. Two topologies, resolved and boosted, are considered and the results…
Top quark production in the process $e^+e^- \rightarrow t\bar{t}$ at a future linear electron positron collider with polarized beams is a powerful tool to determine the scale of new physics. Studies at the $\ttbar$ threshold will allow for…
We study the diagnostic power of future $e^+e^-$ colliders with ${\sqrt {s}} = 500$ GeV (the New Large Collider ($NLC$)) for a model independent determination of the $Z'$ gauge couplings to quarks and leptons. The interference of the $Z'$…
The first measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the fully hadronic channel at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s = 7$ TeV is presented. The measurement has been performed using an integrated luminosity of 1.09…
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…
Top quark production in the process $e^+e^- \rightarrow t\bar{t}$ at a future linear electron positron collider with polarised beams is a powerful tool to determine indirectly the scale of new physics. The presented study, based on a…