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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.

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@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

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