Anomalous creation and decay of top quarks

Due to the top quark’s mass of 173.5 GeV/c2 which is around the energy scale of the spon- taneous symmetry breaking, appearance of new physics can be expected in its production and decay as an anomaly from the standard model expectation. The ATLAS and the CMS experiments have accumulated about 5 fb−1 of data of proton-proton collisions with 7 TeV center of mass energy in 2011, in which 800,000 top quarks pairs are expected. With this high statistics, the ATLAS and the CMS collaborations have investigated the top quark’s production and decay precisely and have reported the results consistent with the standard model.