Single Top Production and Top Properties at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent measurements of top quark production and decay properties at the Tevatron, including cross sections, mass, decay channels, and searches for new physics, providing insights into top quark behavior and potential beyond Standard Model phenomena.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of top quark properties and searches for rare decays and new particles, expanding understanding of top physics at the Tevatron.

Findings

Measured top quark production cross sections and mass.

Analyzed top decay properties such as W helicity and decay correlations.

Conducted searches for rare decays and new particles involving top quarks.

Abstract

We summarize recent measurements made at the Tevatron Collider using top event candidates. Cross section and mass measurements are discussed in a separate contribution to these Proceedings. Here we report on studies of the top P$_T$ distribution in $\ttbar$ production and studies of single top production. Properties of top decays examined are: BF($t \into Wb$)/BF($t \into Wq$), helicity amplitudes of W's from top decays and correlations of $\ttbar$ decay products. Searches for new physics in rare top decays and a search for a state X $\into \ttbar$ are also reported.