ﻻ يوجد ملخص باللغة العربية
The dilepton azimuthal correlation, namely the difference $phi$ between the azimuthal angles of the positive and negative charged lepton in the laboratory frame, provides a stringent test of the spin correlation in $t bar t$ production at the Large Hadron Collider. We introduce a parameterisation of the differential cross section $dsigma / dphi$ in terms of a Fourier series and show that the third-order expansion provides a sufficiently accurate approximation. This expansion can be considered as a `bridge between theory and data, making it very simple to cast predictions in the Standard Model (SM) and beyond, and to report measurements, without the need to provide the numbers for the whole binned distribution. We show its application by giving predictions for the coefficients in the presence of (i) an anomalous top chromomagnetic dipole moment; (ii) an anomalous $tbW$ interaction. The methods presented greatly facilitate the study of this angular distribution, which is of special interest given the $3.2(3.7)sigma$ deviation from the SM next-to-leading order prediction found by the ATLAS Collaboration in Run 2 data.
We discuss lepton charge asymmetries in $t bar t$ and $t bar t gamma$ production at the LHC, which can be measured in the semileptonic decay channel $t bar t to W^+ b , W^- bar b to ell^+ u b , q bar q bar b$ (or the charge conjugate). Considering s
Many extensions of the Standard Model contain (pseudo)scalar bosons with masses in the TeV range. At hadron colliders, such particles would predominantly be produced in gluon fusion and would decay into top quark pair final sates, a signal that inter
We present results of a computation of NLO QCD corrections to the production of an off-shell top--antitop pair in association with an off-shell $text{W}^+$ boson in proton--proton collisions. As the calculation is based on the full matrix elements fo
We investigate a charge asymmetry in $t bar t gamma$ production at the LHC that provides complementary information to the measured asymmetries in $t bar t$ production. We estimate the experimental uncertainty in its measurement at the LHC with 8 and
The Wtb vertex can be probed on future colliders in the processes of single top production (LHC, pp mode, NLC, $gamma e$ mode) and of top pair production (NLC, e^+ e^- mode). We analyse observables sensitive to anomalous Wtb couplings in the top pair