The t->WZb decay in the Standard Model: A Critical Reanalysis

Details The t->WZb decay in the Standard Model: A Critical Reanalysis The t->WZb decay in the Standard Model: A Critical Reanalysis

2000-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0010090v2

Phys.Lett. B502 (2001) 125-132

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages, 4 eps figures, LaTeX. Few references added and minor changes in the text. Results unchanged. Final version to appear

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01333-2

We compute the t->WZb decay rate, in the Standard Model, at the leading order in perturbation theory, with special attention to the effects of the finite widths of the W and Z bosons. These effects are extremely important, since the t->WZb decay occurs near its kinematical threshold. They increase the value of the decay rate by orders of magnitude near threshold or allow it below the nominal threshold. We discuss a procedure to take into account the finite-width effects and compare the results with previous studies of this decay. Within the Standard Model, for a top quark mass in the range between 170 and 180 GeV, we find BR(t->WZb) ~ 2 x 10^{-6}, which makes the observation at the LHC very difficult if at all possible.

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