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New Method for Detecting Charged (Pseudo-)Scalars at Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We propose a new method for detecting a charged (pseudo-)scalar at colliders, based upon the observation that its Yukawa coupling to charm and bottom quarks can be large due to a significant mixing of the top and charm quarks. After analyzing the typical flavor mixing allowed by low energy data in the topcolor and the generic two-Higgs doublet models, we study the physics potential of the Tevatron, LHC, and linear colliders for probing such an s-channel charged resonance via the single-top (as well as Wh^0) production. We show that studying its detection at colliders can also provide information on the dynamics of flavor-changing neutral current phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810367,
  title  = {New Method for Detecting Charged (Pseudo-)Scalars at Colliders},
  author = {H. -J. He and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810367},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

version in Physical Review Letters (discussion on Rb added, conclusion not changed)