T-odd asymmetries in radiative top-quark decays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-02-03 v2
Abstract
We study the angular distribution of the charged lepton in the top-quark decay into a bottom quark and a W boson which subsequently decays into \ell\nu_{\ell}, when a hard gluon is radiated off. The absorptive part of the t \to bWg decay amplitudes, which gives rise to T-odd asymmetries in the distribution, is calculated at the one-loop level in perturbative QCD. The asymmetries at a few percent level are predicted, which may be observable at future colliders.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.3194,
title = {T-odd asymmetries in radiative top-quark decays},
author = {Kaoru Hagiwara and Kentarou Mawatari and Hiroshi Yokoya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3194},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
21 pages, 9 figures; discussions for the decay of polarized top-quarks added in a new chapter, references added, version to appear in JHEP