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A Heavy Top Quark and the $Zb\bar{b}$ Vertex in Non-Commuting Extended Technicolor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We explore corrections to electroweak parameters in the context of Extended Technicolor (ETC) models in which the ETC gauge-boson which generates the top-quark mass carries weak SU(2)SU(2) charge. For mt150m_t \sim 150 GeV there exist potentially large corrections to the ZZ decay width to bb-quarks. Interestingly, in contrast to the situation in ETC models where the gauge-boson which generates the top-quark mass is a weak SU(2)SU(2) singlet, the corrections may {\it increase} the ZbbˉZ \to b \bar{b} branching ratio.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9404209,
  title  = {A Heavy Top Quark and the $Zb\bar{b}$ Vertex in Non-Commuting Extended Technicolor},
  author = {R. S. Chivukula and E. H. Simmons and J. Terning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9404209},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, (uses harmac.tex), BUHEP-94-8