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Next-to-Leading Order Corrections to Single Top Quark Production and Decay at the Tevatron: 2. t-channel Process

Qing-Hong Cao, Reinhard Schwienhorst, Jorge A. Benitez, Raymond Brock, C. -P. Yuan

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0504230

Abstract

We present a study of the t-channel mode of single top quark production at the upgraded Tevatron pp collider, including the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production and the decay of a single top quark. The narrow width approximation was adopted in order to preserve the spin of the top quark in its production and decay. We discuss the effects of different O(αs) contributions on the inclusive cross section as well as various kinematic distributions after imposing the relevant cuts to select t-channel single top signal events.

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