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We investigate extremely rare top quark decays at a future proton-proton collider with centre-of-mass energy of 100 TeV. We focus on two decay modes: radiative decay with a $Z$ boson, $t \rightarrow b WZ$, and flavour-changing neutral decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-06 Andreas Papaefstathiou , Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi

The top quark is expected to be a probe to new physics beyond the standard model. Thanks to the large number of top quarks produced at the Tevatron and the LHC, various properties of the top quark can now be measured accurately. An…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Cen Zhang

In this paper, we examine the interactions of the top quarks with the $Z$ boson using the top quark pair production associated with neutrino pair ($t\bar{t}\nu_{l}\bar{\nu_{l}}$) at the LHC. In particular, potential constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Daruosh Haji Raissi , Javad Ebadi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The production of heavy mass resonances has been widely studied theoretically and experimentally. Several extensions of the standard model (SM) of particle physics, naturally give rise to a new resonance, with neutral electric charge,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Diego Barbosa , Felipe Díaz , Liliana Quintero , Andrés Flórez , Manuel Sanchez , Alfredo Gurrola , Elijah Sheridan , Francesco Romeo

We investigate the potential of the HL-LHC for discovering new physics effects via the same-sign top pair signatures. We focus on the semi leptonic (electron and muon) decay of the top quarks and study the reach for a simplified model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-08 O. M. Ozsimsek , V. Ari , O. Cakir

We apply LHC data to constrain a simplified extension of the Standard Model containing a new spin-1 mediator $R$, which does not couple to first generation quarks, and a spinor dark matter particle $\chi$. We recast ATLAS and CMS searches…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Drees , Zhongyi Zhang

A search is presented for a heavy spin-1 resonance Z' decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark partner T in the lepton+jets final state. The search is performed using a data set of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-12 CMS Collaboration

We explore the sensitivity of Tevatron data to heavy new physics effects in differential dijet production rates using the SMEFT in light of the fact that consistent and conservative constraints from the LHC cannot cover relatively low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Eduard Keilmann , William Shepherd

A search for flavour-changing neutral current decays of a top quark into an up-type quark ($q=u, c$) and the Standard Model Higgs boson, $t\rightarrow Hq$, is presented. The search is based on a dataset of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-29 ATLAS Collaboration

Fermion compositeness, and other types of new physics that can be described by the exchange of very massive particles, can manifest themselves as the result of an effective four-fermion contact interaction. In the case of the processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 A. A. Pankov , N. Paver

In the context of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT), we study the LHC sensitivity to four fermion operators involving heavy quarks by employing cross section measurements in the $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ final state. Starting from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-06 Jorgen D'Hondt , Alberto Mariotti , Ken Mimasu , Seth Moortgat , Cen Zhang

In the context of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT), we study the LHC sensitivity to four fermion operators involving heavy quarks by employing cross section measurements in the $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ final state. Starting from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-26 Jorgen D'Hondt , Alberto Mariotti , Ken Mimasu , Seth Moortgat , Cen Zhang

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

Polarization observables in top quark decays are sensitive probes of possible new physics contributions to the interactions of the heavy third generation quarks. Within an effective theory approach such new physics contributions can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-20 Jernej F. Kamenik

We argue that lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays $M \to \ell_1 \overline{\ell}_2$ of meson states $M$ with different quantum numbers could be used to put constraints on the Wilson coefficients of effective operators describing LFV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-03 Derek E. Hazard

Flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions for a top quark $t$ decays into $Xq$ with $X$ represents a neutral gauge or Higgs boson, and $q$ a up- or charm-quark are highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM) due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 P. Q. Hung , Yu-Xiang Lin , Chrisna Setyo Nugroho , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

This paper investigates the effects of parameters in the Bestest Little Higgs Model (BLHM) on rare flavor-changing decays of the top quark. As a result, flavor-changing phenomena are introduced in the BLHM for the first time. In this study,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-30 T. Cisneros-Pérez , M. A. Hernández-Ruíz , A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez , E. Cruz-Albaro

A search for flavour-changing neutral-current processes in top-quark decays is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-08-13 ATLAS Collaboration

Flavor-breaking interactions due to heavy new physics can be probed at a 10 TeV muon collider in the high-energy production of quarks and leptons. The high collision energy mitigates the suppression of the new interactions, offering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Alfredo Glioti , David Marzocca , Andrea Wulzer

If the top quark is a composite state made out of some constituents, its interaction with the gluon will be modified. We introduce the leading effective operators that contribute to the radius and anomalous magnetic moment of the top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 M. Fabbrichesi , M. Pinamonti , A. Tonero