[Theory-seminars] JOINT THEORY/PHYSICS Seminar today

[Alexei Prokudin]

JOINT THEORY/PHYSICS Seminar
Monday, Nov. 19, 2012
11:00 a.m. (coffee/cookies at 10:30 a.m.)
CEBAF Center Auditorium

Zack Sullivan 
Illinois Institute of Technology

*The New DIS and Drell Yan: Single Top Quarks
and W-prime Bosons*

The study of single-top-quark production has required the development
of new insights into every aspect of QCD: from the composition of the
proton, to the subtle nature of inclusive versus exclusive measurements,
to a general reinterpretation of the connection between theoretical 
calculations and experimental observables.  After a brief review of why
t-channel single top plays the modern role of deep inelastic scattering
in physics at hadron colliders, I will explain how s-channel single top
plays the role of a new Drell Yan. In particular, I will describe recent
model-independent searches for new charged vector currents (W-prime bosons)
and their implications for theory and experiment.

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