Properties of the Top Quark

Abstract

The top quark was discoverd at the CDF and D0 experiments in 1995. As the partner of the bottom quark its properties within the Standard Model are fully defined. Only the mass is a free parameter. The measurement of the top quark mass and the verification of the expected properties have been an important topic of experimental top quark physics since. In this review the recent results on top quark properties obtained by the Tevatron experiments CDF and D0 are summarised. At the advent of the LHC special emphasis is given to the basic measurement methods and the dominating systematic uncertainties.

Habilitation thesis, revised and updated for publication in EPJC

References in corpus (55)

• PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Three Year Results: Implications for Cosmology
• Implications of CTEQ global analysis for collider observables
• Theoretical status and prospects for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders
• Measuring the running top-quark mass
• Updated predictions for the total production cross sections of top and of heavier quark pairs at the Tevatron and at the LHC
• Distributions and correlations for top quark pair production and decay at the Tevatron and LHC.
• NLO QCD corrections to t tbar + jet production at hadron colliders
• First measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top quark pair production
• The Bulk RS KK-gluon at the LHC
• Single top quark production at the Tevatron: threshold resummation and finite-order soft gluon corrections
• The theoretical top quark cross section at the Tevatron and the LHC
• Top Quarks, Axigluons and Charge Asymmetries at Hadron Colliders
• Non-perturbative QCD Effects and the Top Mass at the Tevatron
• First Measurement of the Cross Section for Top-Quark Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
• Search for charged Higgs bosons in top quark decays
• First Measurement of the $\lowercase{\ttbar}$ Differential Cross Section $\lowercase{dσ/d}M_{\lowercase{t\overline{t}}}$ in $\lowercase{\ppbar}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{\lowercase{s}}=1.96$ TeV
• Top Mass Measurements from Jets and the Tevatron Top-Quark Mass
• Search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of top quarks in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
• Heavy-quark pair production at two loops in QCD
• Search for the Production of Narrow tb Resonances in 1.9 fb-1 of ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
• Experimental discrimination between charge 2e/3 top quark and charge 4e/3 exotic quark production scenarios
• Search for W-prime boson resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark
• The Matrix Element Method and its Application to Measurements of the Top Quark Mass
• Interference between W-prime and W in single-top quark production processes
• Measurement of the t-channel single top quark production cross section
• Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets final state with the matrix element method
• Search for flavor changing neutral currents via quark-gluon couplings in single top quark production using 2.3 fb^-1 of ppbar collisions
• Search for ttbar resonances in the lepton plus jets final state in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV
• Search for production of single top quarks via flavor-changing neutral currents at the Tevatron
• Precise measurement of the top quark mass from lepton+jets events at D0
• Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays using 5.4 fb^-1 of ppbar collision data
• Top Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton + Jets Channel Using a Matrix Element Method and in situ Jet Energy Calibration
• Search for charged Higgs bosons in decays of top quarks
• Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets channel using the Ideogram Method
• Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying to top and bottom quarks in ppbar collisions
• Simultaneous measurement of the ratio B(t->Wb)/B(t->Wq) and the top quark pair production cross section with the D0 detector at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
• Measurement of the ttbar production cross section and top quark mass extraction using dilepton events in ppbar collisions
• One-side Forward-backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production at CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Measurement of the top quark mass in final states with two leptons
• Status and Prospects of Top-Quark Physics
• Measurement of the Top Quark Mass and ppbar -> ttbar Cross Section in the All-Hadronic Mode with the CDFII Detector
• Review of Top Quark Physics Results
• Measurements of the top-quark mass using charged particle tracking
• Light Higgs boson discovery from fermion mixing
• Multivariate searches for single top quark production with the D0 detector
• Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decay at D0
• Search for New Color-Octet Vector Particle Decaying to ttbar in ppbar Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
• Direct measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks
• Review of Properties of the Top Quark from Measurements at the Tevatron
• Search for admixture of scalar top quarks in the ttbar lepton+jets final state at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
• Observation of Single Top Quark Production at the Tevatron Collider
• Measurement of the top quark mass at CDF using the "neutrino $\varphi$ weighting" template method on a lepton plus isolated track sample
• Searching the Inclusive Lepton + Photon + Missing ET + b-quark Signature for Radiative Top Quark Decay and Non-Standard-Model Processes
• Independent measurement of the top quark mass and the light- and bottom-jet energy scales at hadron colliders

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production
• Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider
• Pinning down electroweak dipole operators of the top quark
• Top Quark Physics at the LHC: A Review of the First Two Years
• Precision measurements of the top quark mass from the Tevatron in the pre-LHC era
• Top Quark Physics at the Tevatron