https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1474-4
Search for top quark FCNC couplings in Z′ models at the LHC and CLIC
1
Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Ankara University, Tandogan, 06100, Ankara, Turkey
2
Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kastamonu University, Kuzeykent, 37100, Kastamonu, Turkey
Received:
20
August
2010
Revised:
19
September
2010
Published online:
23
October
2010
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 aspects of the top quark physics can be the investigation of the possible anomalous couplings. Here, we study the top quark flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) couplings via the extra gauge boson Z′ at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) energies. We calculate the total cross sections for the signal and the corresponding Standard Model (SM) background processes. For an FCNC mixing parameter x=0.2 and the sequential Z′ mass of 1 TeV, we find the single top quark FCNC production cross sections 0.38(1.76) fb at the LHC with TeV, respectively. For the resonance production of sequential Z′ boson and decays to single top quark at the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) energies, including the initial state radiation and beamstrahlung effects, we find the cross section to be 27.96(0.91) fb at
TeV, respectively. We make the analysis to investigate the parameter space (mixing-mass) through various Z′ models. It is shown that the results benefit from the flavor tagging.
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