QCD effects and search for new physics in t -->b W

Details QCD effects and search for new physics in t -->b W QCD effects and search for new physics in t -->b W

2012-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/1201.6225v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of XXIst International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Grenoble 2011

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The most general set of new physics effective operators contributing to the decay of an unpolarized top quark into a bottom quark and a W gauge boson are considered at next-to-leading order in QCD. We find that the dipole operator contribution to the transverse-plus W helicity fraction F+ is enhanced compared to the leading order result at non-vanishing bottom quark mass. Nonetheless, presently the observable most sensitive to new physics contributions is the longitudinal W helicity fraction FL. We also investigate constraints on t W b couplings coming from precision flavor observables, in particular from Delta B=1 and Delta B=2 transitions of Bq mesons. We find these to be mostly superior to present direct constraints coming from top decay and single top production measurements at the LHC and Tevatron.

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