Single top quark production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
A.V. Baskakov, E.E. Boos, L.V. Dudko, I.P. Lokhtin, A.M. Snigirev
TL;DR
This paper investigates single top quark production in heavy ion PbPb collisions at the LHC, analyzing how the quark-gluon medium affects decay products and charge asymmetry, using advanced simulation tools.
Contribution
It introduces a detailed simulation framework for single top production in heavy ion collisions, incorporating NLO precision and medium interactions.
Findings
Modification of decay product characteristics due to medium interactions
Charge asymmetry of top/anti-top yields from isospin effects
Simulation results suggest measurable effects in heavy ion environments
Abstract
The paper presents analysis of the single top quark production in PbPb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at center-of-mass energy 5.5 TeV per nucleon pair. The analysis is performed with CompHEP and PYQUEN event generators. The neutron and proton content in the nuclei is taken into account. NLO precision has been implemented to simulate kinematic properties and rate of single top production. The modification of different characteristics of single top quark decay products due to interactions of jet partons in quark-gluon medium, and the specific charge asymmetry of top/anti-top quark yields due to the isospin effect are evaluated.
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