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Probing the Top Quark Flavour-Changing Neutral Current at a Future Electron-Positron Collider

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-12-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a study to examine the sensitivity of a future ee+e^{-} e^{+} collider to the anomalous top flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) to the gluon. To separate signal from background a multivariate analysis is performed on top-quark pair and background events, where one top quark is considered to follow the dominant Standard Model (SM) decay, tWbt \rightarrow Wb, and the other top decays through FCNC, tqgt\rightarrow qg, where qq is a uu- or a cc-quark. The analysis of fully-hadronic FCNC decay of the ttˉt \bar{t} pair is also presented. The 95%95\% confidence level limits on the top-quark anomalous couplings are obtained for different values of the center-of-mass energies and integrated luminosities.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8572,
  title  = {Probing the Top Quark Flavour-Changing Neutral Current at a Future Electron-Positron Collider},
  author = {Hoda Hesari and Hamzeh Khanpour and Morteza Khatiri Yanehsari and Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8572},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, two tables