Top-Quark Production and Flavor Physics

TL;DR

This paper discusses how top-quark pair production at colliders serves as a crucial probe for flavor physics, especially given the top quark's large mass, with focus on measurable distributions at the Tevatron and LHC.

Contribution

It highlights the potential of top-quark pair production measurements to explore flavor physics and discusses expected data analysis from Tevatron and LHC.

Findings

Mass and angular distributions can be measured accurately.

Top-quark pair production is a key probe for flavor physics.

Upcoming collider data will enhance understanding of top-quark properties.

Abstract

Because of the top quark's very large mass, about 175~GeV, it now provides the best window into flavor physics. Thus, pair--production of top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is the best probe of this physics until the Large Hadron Collider turns on in the next century. I will discuss aspects of the mass and angular distributions that can be measured in $\ttb$ production with the coming large data samples from the Tevatron and even larger ones from the LHC.