https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2222-8
Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory
MEtop—a generator for single top production via FCNC interactions
1
LIP/Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
2
Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
3
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 1959-007, Lisbon, Portugal
4
Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003, Lisbon, Portugal
Received:
22
August
2012
Revised:
29
October
2012
Published online:
15
November
2012
We present a generator for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents. The MEtop event generator allows for Next-to-Leading-Order direct top production pp→t and Leading-Order production of several other single top processes. A few packages with definite sets of dimension six operators are available. We discuss how to improve the bounds on the effective operators and how well new physics can be probed with each set of independent dimension six operators.
Key words: Large Hadron Collider / Parton Shower / Standard Model Contribution / Electroweak Sector / Full Shower
© The Author(s) 2012
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