Search for single top production at LEP
Physics Letters BPublished 1 December 2002Open access
P. Achard, O. Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benitez, J. Alcaraz Maestre, G. Alemanni, J. Allaby
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Abstract
Single top production in e+e− annihilations is searched for in data collected by the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 634 pb−1. Investigating hadronic and semileptonic top decays, no evidence of single top production at LEP is obtained and upper limits on the single top cross section as a function of the centre-of-mass energy are derived. Limits on possible anomalous couplings, as well as on the scale of contact interactions responsible for single top production are determined.
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