Targets for Flavor-Violating Top Decay
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| author | Altmannshofer, Wolfgang Balme, Zev Donohue, Christopher M. Gori, Stefania Mukundhan, Siddharth Vignesh |
| author_facet | Altmannshofer, Wolfgang Balme, Zev Donohue, Christopher M. Gori, Stefania Mukundhan, Siddharth Vignesh |
| contents | Analyticity and unitarity constrain certain classe of new physics models by linking flavor-conserving and flavor-violating four-fermion interactions. In this work, we explore how these theoretical relations impact flavor-violating rare top quark decays. Building on our previous results, we present an updated analysis of the decays $t \to q \ell^+ \ell^-$ and identify interesting target branching ratios in the range of $10^{-7}$ to $10^{-6}$ once current experimental constraints from flavor-conserving processes are taken into account. We extend the analysis to top decays with lepton flavor violation, deriving correlations among the relevant Wilson coefficients and confronting them with existing limits from LEP and the LHC. Notably, we find that current searches for $t \to q e μ$ are already probing theoretically motivated regions of parameter space. These results strongly support continued efforts to explore flavor-violating top decays as a powerful probe of new physics. |
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| spellingShingle | Targets for Flavor-Violating Top Decay Altmannshofer, Wolfgang Balme, Zev Donohue, Christopher M. Gori, Stefania Mukundhan, Siddharth Vignesh High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Analyticity and unitarity constrain certain classe of new physics models by linking flavor-conserving and flavor-violating four-fermion interactions. In this work, we explore how these theoretical relations impact flavor-violating rare top quark decays. Building on our previous results, we present an updated analysis of the decays $t \to q \ell^+ \ell^-$ and identify interesting target branching ratios in the range of $10^{-7}$ to $10^{-6}$ once current experimental constraints from flavor-conserving processes are taken into account. We extend the analysis to top decays with lepton flavor violation, deriving correlations among the relevant Wilson coefficients and confronting them with existing limits from LEP and the LHC. Notably, we find that current searches for $t \to q e μ$ are already probing theoretically motivated regions of parameter space. These results strongly support continued efforts to explore flavor-violating top decays as a powerful probe of new physics. |
| title | Targets for Flavor-Violating Top Decay |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18664 |