Probing the Top-Quark Electric Dipole Moment at a Photon Linear Collider
Abstract
We probe the top-quark electric dipole moment (EDM) in top-quark pair production via photon-photon fusion at a photon linear collider. We show how linearly-polarized photon beams can be used to extract information on the top-quark EDM without the use of complicated angular correlations of top-quark decay products. If the luminosity of the laser back-scattered photon-photon collisions is comparable to that of the collisions, then the measurement of the top-quark EDM obtained by counting top-quark-production events in photon fusion can be as accurate as the measurement obtained by studying the decay correlations in collisions using a perfect detector.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9506430,
title = {Probing the Top-Quark Electric Dipole Moment at a Photon Linear Collider},
author = {S. Y. Choi and K. Hagiwara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9506430},
year = {2008}
}
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Latex, 11 pages, 1 figure (not included). One compressed postscript file of the paper available at ftp://ftp.kek.jp/kek/preprints/TH/TH-443/kekth443.ps.gz