Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent measurements of single top quark production at the Tevatron, including cross sections, CKM matrix limits, searches for new physics, and anomalous couplings, highlighting progress and future prospects.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of experimental results on single top quark production and related searches, advancing tests of the standard model and new physics constraints.

Findings

Measured single top quark cross sections

Set limits on |Vtb| CKM matrix element

Conducted searches for new physics signals

Abstract

After many years searching for electroweak production of top quarks, the Tevatron collider experiments have now moved from obtaining first evidence for single top quark production to an impressive array of measurements that test the standard model in several directions. This paper describes measurements of the single top quark cross sections, limits set on the CKM matrix element |Vtb|, searches for production of single top quarks produced via flavor-changing neutral currents and from heavy W-prime and H+ boson resonances, and studies of anomalous Wtb couplings. It concludes with projections for future expected significance as the analyzed datasets grow.