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Single top quark production is a relatively rare but extremely interesting process to study at
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It allows a direct probe of the electroweak couplings of the
top quark for any signature of beyond the standard model of particle physics (SM) such as
anomalous vector and tensor couplings, fourth generation fermions, new resonances (such
as ) etc. It also provides access to the structure of a proton via parton distribution
functions. Several measurements of the properties of the top quark such as its spin-
polarization, mass, decay width etc. in single top processes provide valuable information on
the impact of various systematic sources and thus helps controlling them in a combination
of measurements. In the talk, I will summarize latest measurements related to the single top
production and the interpretation of the acquired results with the necessary concepts of the
state-of-the-art statistical analysis of the LHC collision data. |