Single top quark production at the LHC

This paper is an experimental review of the study of processes with a single top quark at the LHC. The pioneering times are over, and this is now a sector of “precision physics” at colliders. Angular distributions of the decay products of singly-produced top quarks are unique tests of the electrowea...

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Main Author: Andrea Giammanco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-11-01
Series:Reviews in Physics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405428315000027
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Summary:This paper is an experimental review of the study of processes with a single top quark at the LHC. The pioneering times are over, and this is now a sector of “precision physics” at colliders. Angular distributions of the decay products of singly-produced top quarks are unique tests of the electroweak interaction. Searches for rare final states of the form t+X (where X=γ,Z,H) are very sensitive to new physics, and will enter with Run II in a very interesting zone of the parameter space of some theories. The relative sign of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark with respect to the Higgs coupling to gauge bosons will be conclusively measured very soon in the tHq final state.
ISSN:2405-4283