Single top quark production and decay in the t-channel at next-to-leading order at the LHC
arXiv:1012.5132 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.034019
Abstract
We present a study of single top and single antitop quark production in the t-channel mode at the LHC pp 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(alpha_s) contributions on the inclusive cross section and important kinematic distributions, after imposing the relevant cuts to select t-channel single top quark events.
43 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D