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Exploring anomalous top interactions via the final lepton in ttbar productions/decays at hadron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study momentum distributions of the final-state charged lepton in ppbar/pp --> ttbar --> l^+ X (l=e or mu) at hadron colliders, i.e., Tevatron and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in order to explore possible new-physics effects in the top-quark sector. Assuming general model-independent ttbar g + ttbar gg and tbW interactions beyond the standard model, we first derive analytical formulas for the corresponding parton-parton processes. We then compute the lepton angular, energy and transverse-momentum distributions in ppbar/pp collisions to clarify how they are affected by those anomalous couplings.

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@article{arxiv.1104.1221,
  title  = {Exploring anomalous top interactions via the final lepton in ttbar productions/decays at hadron colliders},
  author = {Zenro HIOKI and Kazumasa OHKUMA},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1221},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Journal information added. Title slightly changed in the published version (top interaction --> top-quark interaction). One typo in eqs.(15)-(19) corrected (dE_l c_l --> dE_l dc_l)