Theory of Top Quark Production and Decay

Abstract

Direct and indirect information on the top quark mass and its decay modes is reviewed. The theory of top production in hadron- and electron-positron-colliders is presented.

Comments: LaTeX, 114 pages, missing figures available upon request. Lectures presented at the XXIII SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, "The Top Quark and the Electroweak Interaction", July 10-21, 1995, SLAC, Stanford, CA. Published in the proceedings, SLAC-R-494 CONF-9507258-UC-414, pg.1. The complete paper, is also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ttpux2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/ , or via www at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/cgi-bin/preprints/