Abstract

A study of the hadronic properties of top quark events at HERA is made in the hope that some characteristics of such events may emerge that distinguish them from light flavour QCD events. Electronproton collisions are simulated using a parton shower Monte Carlo event generator which includes both initial and final gluon radiation and also incorporates certain gluon interference effects. It is found that applying a multiplicity cut of 35 together with considering only charged current events gives a top to back-ground ratio of about 1 and a total of 40 top events at an integrated luminosity of 500 pb−1 for a top quark mass of 60 GeV. Unfortunately no clear peak in the mass distribution can be obtained as the background and top quark peaks coincide after application of the multiplicity cut. If the top quark mass is 100 GeV there will be only about 6 top quark events under these conditions.

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