Top Quark Production at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental results on top quark production at the Tevatron, highlighting measurements from CDF and D0 that test the standard model and explore potential new physics using datasets up to 6 fb$^{-1}$.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive summary of the latest top quark production analyses from Tevatron experiments, including electroweak and strong interaction studies.

Findings

Measurements consistent with standard model predictions

Evidence for top quark production via electroweak interactions

Precise determination of top quark production cross sections

Abstract

The top quark is the most recently discovered of the standard model quarks, and because of its very large mass, studies of the top quark and its interactions are important both as tests of the standard model and as searches for new physical phenomena. In this document, recent results in analyses of top quark production, via both the electroweak and strong interactions, from the CDF and D0 experiments are presented. The results included here utilize a dataset corresponding to up to 6 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, slightly more than half of the dataset recorded by each experiment before the Tevatron was shutdown in September 2011.