Single top-quark production at the Tevatron and the LHC
(2018) Reviews of Modern Physics — Vol. 90, n° 90, p. 35001 (2018)
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Schwienhorst, Reinhard 
- Abstract
- This paper provides a review of the experimental studies of processes with a single top quark at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider and the LHC proton-proton collider. Single top-quark production in the t-channel process has been measured at both colliders. The s-channel process has been observed at the Tevatron, and its rate has also been measured at the center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV at the LHC in spite of the comparatively harsher background contamination. LHC data also brought the observation of the associated production of a single top quark with a W boson as well as with a Z boson. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vtb| is extracted from the single top-quark production cross sections, and t-channel events are used to measure several properties of the top quark and set constraints on models of physics beyond the standard model. Rare final states with a single top quark are searched for, as enhancements in their production rates, if observed, would be clear signs of new physics.
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Giammanco, A., & Schwienhorst, R. (2018). Single top-quark production at the Tevatron and the LHC. Reviews of Modern Physics, 90(90), 35001. https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.90.035001 (Original work published 2018)