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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 investigate the prospects for discovering a top quark decaying into one light Higgs boson along with a charm quark in top quark pair production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A general two Higgs doublet model is adopted to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Chung Kao , Hai-Yang Cheng , Wei-Shu Hou , Joshua Sayre

Following the intriguing hints of deviations from the Standard Model in rare B meson decays, searches for rare and forbidden decays of charm hadrons become a hot topic again. We present recent results on Flavour Changing Neutral Current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-08 Claudia Vacca

The top quark flavor changing neutral current processes are extremely suppressed within the Standard Model. Nevertheless, they could be enhanced in a new physics model beyond the Standard Model. Investigating the top quark's flavor changing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Eda Alici

The results of a search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays t to Zq in events with a topology compatible with the decay chain t t-bar to Wb + Zq to ell nu b + ell ell q are presented. The search is performed with a data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-21 CMS Collaboration

Flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions between the Higgs boson and the top quark are subject to significant suppression within the Standard Model (SM). Consequently, these interactions can only attain an observable level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-24 Eda Alici

I explore the possibility of using heavy meson decays as probes for flavour changing neutral transitions (FCNC) $c\to u\gamma$ and $c\to ul^+l^-$. In the standard model, these are the most frequent FCN transitions among the quarks with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sasa Prelovsek

We investigate the prospects for discovering a top quark decaying into one light Higgs boson ($h^0$) along with a charm quark ($c$) in top quark pair production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and future hadron colliers. A general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Rishabh Jain , Chung Kao

Exclusive nonleptonic decays of bottom and charm baryons are studied within a relativistic quark model. We include factorizing as well as nonfactorizing contributions to the decay amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Lyubovitskij , M. A. Ivanov , J. G. Korner , A. G. Rusetsky

The LHC is a top quark factory and provides a unique opportunity to look for flavour changing neutral current or charged-lepton flavour violating interactions of the top quark. These processes are highly suppressed in the Standard Model and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-17 Pavol Bartos

We consider the flavor changing neutral current(FCNC) process $e^{+}e^{-}\to\bar{t}c$(or $t\bar{c}$) in the context of topcolor-assisted technicolor(TC2) models. We find that the contributions of charged scalars (technipions and top-pions)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Chongxing Yue , Yuanben Dai , Qingjun Xu , Guoli Liu

We study the one-loop contributions of the effective flavor changing neutral couplings (FCNC) tcZ and tcH on the electroweak precision observables Gamma_Z, R_c, R_b, R_l, A_c and A^FB_c. Using the known experimental limits on these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Larios , R. Martinez , M. A. Perez

We investigate the sensitivity of the LHC to flavour-changing neutral current interactions involving the top quark and a photon using a model-independent effective field theory framework, focusing on two complementary processes: single top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Benjamin Fuks , Sumit K. Garg , A. Hammad , Adil Jueid

A UFO model describing general top quark Flavour Changing Neutral Currents is presented. We use it to study t$\gamma$, tH and tZ production via FCNCs anomalous couplings at the Large Hadron Collider, in particular how the distributions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-01 Artur Amorim , Juan Pedro Araque , Nuno Filipe Castro , Jose Santiago , Rui Santos

We study possible non-standard $tuZ$ and $tcZ$ couplings, which induce flavor-changing neutral-current decays of the top quark, in the effective-Lagrangian framework. The corresponding interaction Lagrangian comes from several $SU(3) \times…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-17 Zenro Hioki , Kazumasa Ohkuma , Akira Uejima

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

Rare flavour changing neutral current decays of strange, charm and beauty hadrons have been instrumental in building up a picture of flavour in the Standard Model. Increasingly precise measurements of these decays allow to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-21 Thomas Blake , Akimasa Ishikawa , David M. Straub

We study the invisible scalar of $S$ in charmed meson and baryon decays with flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) based on the model-independent effective Lagrangian between the quarks and invisible scalar. From the bounds of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-07 Chao-Qiang Geng , Geng Li

Analyticity and unitarity constrain certain classe of new physics models by linking flavor-conserving and flavor-violating four-fermion interactions. In this work, we explore how these theoretical relations impact flavor-violating rare top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Zev Balme , Christopher M. Donohue , Stefania Gori , Siddharth Vignesh Mukundhan

We explore signatures related to squark decays in the framework of non-minimally flavour-violating Supersymmetry. We consider a simplified model where the lightest squark consists of an admixture of charm and top flavour. By recasting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 Amit Chakraborty , Motoi Endo , Benjamin Fuks , Björn Herrmann , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Priscilla Pani , Giacomo Polesello