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Anomalous t-c-g coupling: The connection between single top production and top decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Continuing earlier work, we examine the constraint on an anomalous t-c-g coupling from top quark decay. We find that from current CDF measurements of the branching ratio tWbt \rightarrow W b, the minimum scale at which new physics can strongly modify the t-c-g coupling is \Ltcg \geq about 950 GeV. At the upgraded Tevatron, single top production can constrain \Ltcg \geq 4.5 TeV. The connection between t-c production and the decay tcgt \rightarrow c g is examined, showing how constraints on one lead to a constraint on the other.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9611244,
  title  = {Anomalous t-c-g coupling: The connection between single top production and top decay},
  author = {Tim Tait and C. --P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9611244},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages. Requires epsf.sty to process .eps formatted figures