Probing Top Quark-Electron Interactions at Future Colliders
Abstract
Top quark interactions offer a window into possible new high scale physics and many models of new physics predict that the top quark interactions will deviate significantly from those predicted by the Standard Model (SM). We present an analysis of the experimental restrictions on anomalous 4-fermion operators that is accurate to next-to-leading order (NLO) in both the electroweak and QCD interactions within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework. At NLO, there is sensitivity to an extended set of anomalous interactions beyond those probed at leading order. A comparison of current limits from electroweak precision observables, along with expected future limits from Drell-Yan and production at the high luminosity LHC, from deep inelastic scattering at the EIC, and from projected sensitivities at the future FCC-ee and CEPC machines demonstrates that each of these programs extends the precision understanding of the interactions of top quarks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.02039,
title = {Probing Top Quark-Electron Interactions at Future Colliders},
author = {Luigi Bellafronte and Sally Dawson and Pier Paolo Giardino and Hongkai Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.02039},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures