Single Top Results by ATLAS and CMS

TL;DR

This paper reports on measurements of single top quark production channels and a search for Flavour Changing Neutral Currents using early LHC data from ATLAS and CMS at 7 TeV.

Contribution

It presents the first results on single top production and FCNC searches from 7 TeV LHC data by ATLAS and CMS collaborations.

Findings

Observation of single top production channels

Limits set on Flavour Changing Neutral Currents

Analysis based on up to 2.1 fb^-1 of data

Abstract

Electroweak production of top quarks, the so-called single top production, is interesting both in the context of measurements of the Standard Model of Particle Physics as well as searches for new phenomena beyond that. Analyses based on data taken in 2010 and 2011 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC proton-proton collider will be presented. Different production channels, including t-channel, s-channel, and associated W boson production, have been addressed using datasets of up to 2.1 fb^-1. A first search for Flavour Changing Neutral Currents has been performed as well.