Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-09-07
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
25 pages, 8 figures, Contribution presented in the XXIX International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Sitges, February 2001
Scientific paper
Motivated by the need to set bounds on the third generation charged couplings, we study the mechanism of single top production at the LHC, analyzing the sensitivity of different observables to the magnitude of the effective left and right couplings. The study is carried out in the framework of the so-called effective W approximation, where the virtual $W$ is treated as a parton. We take this opportunity to critically assess the validity of this approximation in detail by comparing it to an exact calculation recently completed by us of the same process. We comment on several issues related to top polarization since the observables relevant to distinguish between left and right effective couplings involve the measurement of the spin of the top. The conclusion is that the effective $W$ approximation is not well suited for this subtle analysis; it fails to reproduce the detailed $p_T$ distributions and grossly distorts the polarization of the emerging top. It does however, reproduce the overall angular distribution and gives a sensible order-of-magnitude estimate for the total cross section analysis.
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