Useful Diagrams
of Top Signals and Backgrounds

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Top Pair Production and Decay
ttbar production from qqbar ttbar production from gluons ttbar production with l+jets decay
ttbar production from qqbar ttbar production from qqbar top decay
ttbar production with e-mu decay ttbar production with mu+jets decay ttbar production
ttbar production with l+jets decay ttbar production with l+jets decay, along the beamline  
ttbar branching fractions pie chart ttbar decay channels  
Single Top Diagrams
s-channel tb s-channel tb, electron channel decay s-channel tb, muon channel decay
t-channel tqb t-channel tqb t-channel tqb, electron channel decay
single top tree level single top tree level t-channel tqb, muon channel decay
single top tree level single top tree level single top tree level
Beyond-the-Standard-Model Top Processes
heavy Z-prime resonance for ttbar heavy W-prime for single top  
top pairs with standard charge top pairs with exotic charge  
Charged Higgs decay to taunu Charged Higgs decay to csbar Top pair radiating a neutral Higgs
t-prime pairs top pair, with a FCNC decay to a Z boson stop pair producton
flavor-changing neutral current single top via gluon flavor-changing neutral current single top via Z or gamma stop pair producton with decay to charginos
flavor-changing neutral current single top via gluon flavor-changing neutral current single top via Z or gamma  
top coupling to W boson top coupling to Z boson top coupling to Higgs boson
W+Jets, Top Pair, and Multijets Backgrounds
Wbb background Wbbg background Wbbg background
ttbar as background multijet electron background bbbar background
Other Electroweak Processes
W decaying to munu Z decaying to ee  
low-mass Higgs to bbbar high-mass Higgs to WW  

This page created by Ann Heinson
Last update: June 1, 2009