Differential distributions for Single Top Quark Production at the LHeC

Abstract

We present a phenomenological study of the single top (anti-)quark production with leptonic decays at the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) at the next-to-leading-order (NLO) in QCD. We focus on various differential distributions in a fiducial region. The NLO corrections can reduce the fiducial cross section by 14%. We find the NLO predictions exhibit strong stability under scale variations for most observables considered while the scale variations at the leading-order (LO) dominated in the theoretical uncertainties. We propose a method of determining the top-quark mass using the measurement of the average transverse momentum of the charged lepton. The scale variations at the NLO induce a theoretical uncertainty of about 1.3 GeV of the extracted top-quark mass. The statistical error of the extracted top-quark mass amounts to 1.1 GeV. We also investigate the impact of the QCD corrections and the scale variations in searches of the anomalous Wtb couplings.

arXiv comment13 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables; Published version

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