INP-MSU-96-41/448, UCR/96-25 Single top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron
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چکیده
We present a calculation of the single top quark cross section for protonantiproton interactions with √ s = 1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We examine the effects of top mass, parton distribution functions, QCD scale, and collision energy, on each of the component production mechanisms, and study the kinematic distributions for standard model electroweak production. At the upgraded Tevatron with √ s = 2.0 TeV and high luminosity, it will be possible to test the nature of the Wtb coupling using single top production. We estimate the sensitivity to measure the single top cross section, and thus to directly measure Vtb and the top quark partial width. We show what happens to the Vtb measurement when an anomalous (V+A) component is added to the Wtb coupling, and how the top quark polarization affects the kinematic distributions. 14.70.Fm, 13.40.Em, 13.40.Gp Typeset using REVTEX
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