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Exploring top quark FCNC within 2HDM type III in association with flavor physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-01-27 v2

Abstract

The top quark flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) process is an excellent probe to search for new physics in top sector since the Standard Model expectation is extremely suppressed. We explore Higgs-mediated top quark FCNC, focusing on HH-tt-cc Yukawa coupling λct\lambda_{ct} within the general two Higgs doublet model. After electroweak symmetry breaking the top quark FCNC couplings are included in the charged Higgs Yukawa sector so that they contribute to various processes in flavor physics. To probe λct\lambda_{ct}, we study anomalous single top production and the same sign top pair production at the LHC in association with flavor physics from the tree-level processes BD()τνB\to D^{(*)}\tau\nu, BτνB\to \tau \nu as well as from the loop-level processes BdXsγB_d \to X_s \gamma, Bd,sBd,sB_{d,s}-{\overline B}_{d,s} mixing. We perform combined analysis of all the constraints regarding the fine-tuning argument to fit the data and discuss future prospect. The recently updated measurements on BD()τνB\to D^{(*)}\tau\nu still prefer large λct\lambda_{ct}, but we show that the current bound on the same sign top pair production at the LHC gives the most significant upper bound on λct\lambda_{ct} to be less than 103010\sim30 depending on neutral heavy Higgs masses. We also find that for the given upper bound on λct\lambda_{ct}, BD()τνB\to D^{(*)}\tau\nu put significant lower bound on HH-τ\tau-τ\tau Yukawa coupling, and the bound is proportional to the charged Higgs mass.

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@article{arxiv.1509.00491,
  title  = {Exploring top quark FCNC within 2HDM type III in association with flavor physics},
  author = {C. S. Kim and Yeo Woong Yoon and Xing-Bo Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00491},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

29 pages, 9 figures; modified version published in JHEP