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Detecting the neutral top-pion at $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-03-23 v1

Abstract

We investigate some processes of the associated production of a neutral top-pion Πt0\Pi^{0}_{t} with a pair of fermions(e+effˉΠt0e^{+}e^{-}\to f\bar{f}\Pi^{0}_{t}) in the context of top-color-assisted technicolor(TC2) theory at future e+ee^{+}e^{-} colliders. The studies show that the largest cross sections of the processes e+effˉΠt0(f=u,d,c,s,μ,τ)e^{+}e^{-}\to f'\bar{f'}\Pi^{0}_{t}(f'=u,d,c,s,\mu,\tau) could only reach the level of 0.01fb, we can hardly detect a neutral top-pion through these processes. For the processes e+ee+eΠt0e^{+}e^{-}\to e^{+}e^{-}\Pi^{0}_{t}, e+ettˉΠt0e^{+}e^{-}\to t\bar{t}\Pi^{0}_{t} and e+ebbˉΠt0e^{+}e^{-}\to b\bar{b}\Pi^{0}_{t}, the cross sections of these processes are at the level of a few fb for the favorable parameters and a few tens, even hundreds, of neutral top-pion events can be produced at future e+ee^{+}e^{-} colliders each year through these processes. With the clean background of the flavor-changing tcˉt\bar{c} channel, the top-pion events can possibly be detected at the planned high luminosity e+ee^{+}e^{-} colliders. Therefore, such neutral top-pion production processes provide a useful way to detect a neutral top-pion and test the TC2 model directly.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402270,
  title  = {Detecting the neutral top-pion at $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders},
  author = {Xuelei Wang and Yueling Yang and Bingzhong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402270},
  year   = {2011}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures