Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-08-11
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
7 pages, 3 figs
Scientific paper
The topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model predicts a number of neutral scalars like the top-pion ($\pi^0_t$) and the top-Higgs ($h^0_t$). These scalars have flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC) top quark couplings, among which the top-charm transition couplings may be sizable. Such FCNC couplings induce single top productions associated with a neutral scalar at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) through the parton processes $cg \to t \pi_t^0$ and $cg \to t h_t^0$. In this note we examine these productions and find their production rates can exceed the $3\sigma$ sensitivity of the LHC in a large part of parameter space. Since in the Standard Model and the minimal supersymmetric model such rare productions have unobservably small production rates at the LHC, these rare processes will serve as a good probe for the TC2 model.
Liu Guoli
Zhang Huanjun
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