Single Top Production as a Probe of Heavy Resonances

Elizabeth Drueke, Joseph Nutter, Reinhard Schwienhorst, Natascia Vignaroli, Devin G. E. Walker, Jiang-Hao Yu

Published 2014-09-26Version 1

The single top quark final state provides sensitivity to new heavy resonances produced in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Particularly, the single top plus quark final state appears in models with heavy charged bosons or scalars, or in models with flavor-changing neutral currents involving the top quark. The cross sections and final state kinematics distinguish such models from each other and from standard model backgrounds. Several models of resonances decaying to a single top quark final state are presented and their phenomenology is discussed.