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A Model of Strong Flavor Dynamics for the Top Quark

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We discuss a model in which the third generation fermions undergo a different SU(2)SU(2) weak interaction from the first two generation fermions. In general, a flavor changing neutral current interaction is expected. Constrained by the precision low energy data, the mass (MZ=MWM_{Z'}=M_{W'}) of the heavy gauge bosons is bounded from below to be about 1.11.1 TeV for αs=0.125\alpha_s=0.125 and about 1.31.3 TeV for αs=0.115\alpha_s=0.115, at the 3σ3\sigma level. This model favors a larger RbR_b and a smaller RcR_c as compared with the Standard Model, but it does not explain the RcR_c data. If one takes the RbR_b data seriously, then MZM_{Z'} is bounded, at the 3σ3\sigma level, to be 462462 GeV <MZcosϕ<1481GeV< M_{Z^{\prime}} \cos\phi < 1481\,\, {\rm{GeV}}, where cosϕ\cos\phi is the mixing angle between the two SU(2)SU(2)'s in the model. Effects predicted for high energy experiments at the Tevatron, LEP140, LEP-II, LHC, and future linear colliders are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9603349,
  title  = {A Model of Strong Flavor Dynamics for the Top Quark},
  author = {Ehab Malkawi and Tim Tait and C. --P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9603349},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages LaTeX; 2 figures included as separate files in postscript format