Effective operators in t-channel single top production and decay

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Publication date 11-2018
Journal European Physical Journal C
Article number 919
Volume | Issue number 78 | 11
Number of pages 15
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Abstract
The production of a single top quark in the t-channel and its subsequent decay is studied at NLO accuracy in QCD, augmented with the relevant dimension-6 effective operators from the Standard Model Effective Theory. We examine various kinematic and angular distributions for proton-proton collisions at the LHC at 13 TeV, in order to assess the sensitivity to these operators, both with and without the top quark narrow width approximation. Our results will be helpful when devising strategies to establish bounds on their coefficients, including the amount of CP violation of the weak dipole operator.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6399-3
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