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CP violating effects in the single top quark production via flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) reactions $e^+e^- ->t bar{q}$ and $e^+e^- ->bar{t}q$ (here $q$ refers to charm and up quarks) are studied. The effective Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. T. Alan , A. Senol , A. T. Tasci

The top quark is the heaviest particle to date discovered, with a mass close to the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. It is expected that the top quark would be sensitive to the new physics at the TeV scale. One of the most important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 O. Cakir , I. T. Cakir , A. Senol , A. T. Tasci

We report a search for the flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) decay of the top quark \tZq ($q=u,c$) in \ppbar collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96\tev$ using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.9\invfb collected by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 CDF Collaboration , T. Aaltonen

Flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) decays t to H + c, t to Z + c, and H to t + bar{c} are discussed in the context of Alternative Left-Right symmetric Models (ALRM) with extra isosinglet heavy fermions where FCNC decays may take place…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Gaitan , O. G. Miranda , L. G. Cabral-Rosetti

Low-energy experiments involving kaon, B-meson, D-meson, and hyperon flavor-changing neutral transitions have confirmed the loop-induced flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) picture of the standard model (SM). The continuing study of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 Xiao-Gang He , Jusak Tandean , G. Valencia

We investigate the prospects for discovering the Flavour Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) $tqZ$ couplings via two production processes yielding trilepton signals: top quark pair production $pp\to t\bar{t}$ with one top decaying to the $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Yao-Bei Liu , Stefano Moretti

We study low energy experimental constraints on an anomalous top-quark coupling associated with the flavor-changing neutral current vertex $Z \bar t c$. In view of these constraints, we discuss the experimental observability of the induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Han , R. D. Peccei , X. Zhang

Flavour Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) processes are forbidden at tree level in the Standard Model and highly suppressed at higher orders. This makes FCNC one of the key processes to search for new physics since any small deviations from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 J. P. Araque

These proceedings present a search for flavour-changing neutral-current (FCNC) interaction involving the top quark, Higgs boson and either the up or the charm quark, using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV proton--proton collision data from the ATLAS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Shayma Wahdan , On behalf of the ATLAS collaboration

We present the sensitivity to Flavor Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) in interactions involving the top quark at future $e^+e^-$ and $\mu^+\mu^-$ machines. We consider the $Ztc$ vertex as well as four-fermion contact interactions involving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Sagar Airen , Roberto Franceschini

Models with a non-universal Z' exhibit in general flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC) at tree-level. When the Z' couplings favor the third generation, flavor changing transitions of the form Z'tc and Z'tu could be large enough to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-09 Sudhir Kumar Gupta , G. Valencia

We calculate flavor-changing neutral-current (FCNC) processes involving top-quark production via anomalous tqV couplings at the Tevatron and HERA colliders. We cover the FCNC processes p pbar -> t Z, p pbar -> t gamma, p pbar -> t t, and e…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alexander Belyaev

Rare $B$-decays induced by flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNC) is one of the promising candidates for probing physics beyond the Standard model. However, for identifying potential new physics from the data, reliable control over QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-21 Dmitri Melikhov

The LHC will have unprecedented sensitivity to flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) top quark decays, whose observation would be a clear sign of physics beyond the standard model. Although many details of top flavor violation are model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-22 Patrick J. Fox , Zoltan Ligeti , Michele Papucci , Gilad Perez , Matthew D. Schwartz

In this paper, we examine the sensitivity of the three-top quark production at the LHC to the top quark flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC) as well as the sensitivity of the four-top production to the strong and weak dipole moments of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-05 Malihe Malekhosseini , Mehrdad Ghominejad , Hamzeh Khanpour , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The presence of the anomalous top quark flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions leads to the production of same-sign top quarks in proton-proton collisions. The results of a search for events with same-sign dileptons and b-jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-29 Reza Goldouzian

We investigate the anomalous flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions of top quark through the process $e^{-}p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}q+X$. We calculate the signal and background cross sections in electron proton collisions at Large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-18 I. Turk Cakir , A. Yilmaz , H. Denizli , A. Senol , H. Karadeniz , O. Cakir

The top quark flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) process is an excellent probe to search for new physics in top sector since the Standard Model expectation is extremely suppressed. We explore Higgs-mediated top quark FCNC, focusing on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 C. S. Kim , Yeo Woong Yoon , Xing-Bo Yuan

The single production of top quark due to flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) interaction and its decay to bW are studied at CLIC+LHC based gamma-p colliders. We consider both t-c-gamma and t-u-gamma anomalous couplings. The anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Orhan Cakir

We consider a Z' model where the Z' boson couples only to up and top quarks. As a simple setup, one can consider a family-dependent $U(1)'$ symmetry, under which only right-handed up-type quarks are charged. After symmetry breaking, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-16 Sungwoong Cho , P. Ko , Jungil Lee , Yuji Omura , Chaehyun Yu