Single top quark production and decay in the<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:math>channel at next-to-leading order at the LHC

Abstract

We present a study of single top and single antitop quark production in the $t$-channel mode at the LHC $pp$ collider at 7 TeV, 10 TeV and 14 TeV, including next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production and decay of the top quark. We discuss the effects of different $O({\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s})$ contributions on the inclusive cross section and important kinematic distributions, after imposing the relevant cuts to select $t$-channel single top quark events.