Unitarity Constraints on Anomalous Top Quark Couplings to Weak Gauge Bosons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v2
Abstract
If there is new physics associated with the top quark, it could show up as anomalous couplings of the top quark to weak gauge bosons, such as and vector and axial-vector couplings. We use the processes , , and to obtain the unitarity constraints on these anomalous couplings, and combine these constraints with those from precision electroweak data. The unitarity constraints can impose additional limits on the anomalous couplings when the scale of new physics is as low as 2 TeV. A nonzero measurement of such an anomalous coupling leads to an upper limit on the new physics scale from the unitarity condition.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607413,
title = {Unitarity Constraints on Anomalous Top Quark Couplings to Weak Gauge Bosons},
author = {M. Hosch and K. Whisnant and Bing-Lin Young},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607413},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, Latex, 4 postscipt figures included. Resubmitted with major revisions, including the newest data on $R_b$