Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-01-12
JHEP0409:012,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
23 pages, 22 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/012
We evaluate the potential of the CERN LHC collider to observe rare decays of the top quark in channels involving R-parity violating (RPV) interactions. We stress the importance of calculating top quark production and decay simultaneously as a true 2->4 process. The process of tt-bar pair production followed by RPV decay of one of the top quarks is analyzed with fast detector simulation. We show that intermediate supersymmetric particles can be observed as resonances even if they are heavier than the top quark due to the significant off-shell top-quark mass effects. The approach where the top quark is produced on-mass-shell and then decays into 2- or 3-body final state would in general lead to incorrect kinematical distributions and rates. The rates of the 2 -> 4 process with top quark production and RPV 3-body decay depend on the total width of the heavy intermediate sfermion which could,therefore, be measured indirectly. We find that the LHC collider offers a unique potential to study rare top quark decays in the framework of supersymmetry with broken R-parity for branching fractions of RPV top decays as low as 10^{-6}
Belyaev Alexander
Genest Marie-Helene
Leroy Christophe
Mehdiyev Rashid
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