Rare top decays t -> c gamma, t -> c g and CKM unitarity

Details Rare top decays t -> c gamma, t -> c g and CKM unitarity Rare top decays t -> c gamma, t -> c g and CKM unitarity

2002-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0210360v2

Phys.Lett.B553:251-260,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

LaTeX, 15 pages, 12 PS figures, minor changes. To be published in PLB

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(02)03230-6

Top flavour-changing neutral decays are extremely suppressed within the Standard Model (SM) by the GIM mechanism, but can reach observable rates in some of its extensions. We compute the branching ratios for t -> c gamma and t -> c g in minimal SM extensions where the addition of a vector-like up or down quark singlet breaks the unitarity of the 3 x 3 Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. The maximum rates obtained indicate to what extent present experimental data allow 3 x 3 CKM unitarity to be broken in these models, and are too small to be observed in the near future. As a by-product, we reproduce the calculation of these branching ratios in the SM, and with an improved set of parameters we obtain values one order of magnitude smaller than the ones usually quoted in the literature. We study the CP asymmetries between the decay rates of the top quark and antiquark, which can be much larger than in the SM, also as a consequence of the partial breaking of 3 x 3 CKM unitarity.

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