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Electroweak Top Quark Production at the Fermilab Tevatron

A. P. Heinson, A. S. Belyaev, E. E. Boos

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9509274

Abstract

Top quarks can be produced from the electroweak Wtb coupling, leading to a single top or antitop in the final state. We examine single top quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron and calculate the cross section as a function of top quark mass, for each of three separate production processes. We give details of the interferences between Feynman diagrams in W-gluon fusion and then study the effects of an anomalous (V+A) term in the Wtb coupling. Using predictions for the next Tevatron run, we estimate the experimental sensitivity to the CKM matrix element Vtb as a function of the strength of the anomalous coupling.

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