Single top quark production and decay in the $t$ channel at next-to-leading order at the LHC

Reinhard Schwienhorst, C.-P. Yuan, Charles Mueller, and Qing-Hong Cao

Phys. Rev. D 83, 034019 – Published 16 February 2011

Abstract

We present a study of single top and single antitop quark production in the $t$ -channel mode at the LHC $p p$ collider at 7 TeV, 10 TeV and 14 TeV, including next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production and decay of the top quark. We discuss the effects of different $O (α_{s})$ contributions on the inclusive cross section and important kinematic distributions, after imposing the relevant cuts to select $t$ -channel single top quark events.

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Received 23 December 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.034019

Authors & Affiliations

Reinhard Schwienhorst^*, C.-P. Yuan^†, and Charles Mueller^‡

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

Qing-Hong Cao^§

HEP Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

^*schwier@pa.msu.edu
^†yuan@pa.msu.edu
^‡muell149@msu.edu
^§caoq@hep.anl.gov

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Vol. 83, Iss. 3 — 1 February 2011

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