Single Top Physics at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

The production of top quark in electroweak processes was first observed in 2010 at the Tevatron. Since then it has been carefully studied at both LHC and Tevatron. Single top production proceeds through different channels and allows a direct determination of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{tb}|$. We will present the current status of searches and observation and discuss the results obtained so far and perspectives at hadron machines.

Invited Report, to appear in Proceedings of Hadron Collider Physics 2012

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• Single top quark production at the Tevatron: threshold resummation and finite-order soft gluon corrections
• Measurement of the single-top-quark t-channel cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• Measurement of the t-channel single top-quark production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• Evidence for associated production of a single top quark and W boson in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

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