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Scalars from Top-condensation Models at Hadron Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the production and decay of neutral scalars and pseudo-scalars at hadron colliders, in theories where the top-quark mass is the result of a ttˉt\bar t condensate. We show that the dominant decay channel for masses below the ttˉt\bar t threshold is the flavor changing mode tctc. This is a consequence of the non-universal nature of the underlying interactions in all top-condensation models and provides a model-independent signature of these scenarios. We show that an upgraded Tevatron is sensitive to a sizeable region of the interesting parameter space and that the LHC will highly constrain these models through this flavor violating channel.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905347,
  title  = {Scalars from Top-condensation Models at Hadron Colliders},
  author = {Gustavo Burdman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905347},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes in figures for readibility. final version to appear in PRL

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