We present a calculation of the single top quark cross section for
proton-antiproton interactions with sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron
collider. We examine the effects of top mass, parton distribution functions,
QCD scale, and collision energy, on each of the component production
mechanisms, and study the kinematic distributions for standard model
electroweak production. At the upgraded Tevatron with sqrt(s) = 2.0 TeV and
high luminosity, it will be possible to test the nature of the Wtb coupling
using single top production. We estimate the sensitivity to measure the single
top cross section, and thus to directly measure V_tb and the top quark partial
width. We show what happens to the V_tb measurement when an anomalous (V+A)
component is added to the Wtb coupling, and how the top quark polarization
affects the kinematic distributions.Comment: 31 pages including 11 figure
