Phenomenological studies of top-pair production at NLO
Phenomenological studies of top-pair production at NLO
Phenomenological studies of top-pair production at NLO
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Top Quark<br />
Produced in hadron-hadron collisions through strong interactions<br />
Decays without forming hadrons through the single mode tW b<br />
Distinguished by its large mass, close to EW symmetry breaking scale<br />
Unique property raises questions:<br />
Is the <strong>top</strong> quark mass gener<strong>at</strong>ed by the Higgs mechanism ?<br />
Does it play more fundamental role ?<br />
Are there new particles lighter than the <strong>top</strong> quark ?<br />
Does the <strong>top</strong> quark decay into them ?<br />
Could non-SM physics manifest itself in non-standard couplings <strong>of</strong> <strong>top</strong><br />
quark which show up as anomalies in <strong>top</strong> quark <strong>production</strong> and decays?<br />
Top quark physics tries to answer all these questions<br />
Properties <strong>of</strong> the <strong>top</strong> quark have already been examined <strong>at</strong> the Tev<strong>at</strong>ron<br />
LHC is a <strong>top</strong> factory, producing about 8 million tt <strong>pair</strong>s per<br />
experiment per year <strong>at</strong> low luminosity (10 fb 1 /year)<br />
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