We study the possibility of same sign top quark pair production at the LHC (and the VLHC) as a direct probe of FCNC processes. Besides the SM neutral Z boson, two other neutral bosons are considered, a top-Higgs type scalar and a Z' boson that appear in Topcolor assisted Technicolor models. We find that the FCNC couplings tqV (q=u,c ; V=H,Z,Z') may produce an interesting signal of same sign top quark pairs that could be observed at the LHC (VLHC).
Single top quark production at the ILC can be used to obtain a high precision
measurements of the the Vtb CKM matrix element as well as the effective tbW
coupling. We have calculated the QCD correction for the cross section in the
context of an effective vector boson approximation. Our results show a 10%
increase due to the strong interaction.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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