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Chiral-invariant CP-violating Effective Interactions in Z Decays to three Jets

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Tests of CP violation by appropriate momentum correlations in Z3Z\to 3 jets and in particular in ZbbˉXZ\to b\bar bX probe CP-violating effective couplings -- that manifest themselves as form factors -- which conserve the quark chirality and quark flavour. By giving two examples we show that such couplings can be induced at one-loop order in extensions of the Standard Model with CP violation beyond the Kobayashi-Maskawa phase. In one of the models we compute the chirality-conserving part of the CP-violating ZbbˉZb{\bar b}-gluon amplitude for massless bb quarks, determine the resulting effective dimension d=6d=6 couplings in the local limit, and discuss the possible size of the effects. Finally we show that in models with excited quarks the chiral-invariant CP-violating effective interactions could be quite large if appropriate couplings are of a size characteristic of a strong interaction

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9606379,
  title  = {Chiral-invariant CP-violating Effective Interactions in Z Decays to three Jets},
  author = {W. Bernreuther and A. Brandenburg and P. Haberl and O. Nachtmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9606379},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, LaTeX with 4 postscript figures, epsf macro included