https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13739-w
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Collider-flavour complementarity from the bottom to the top
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK
2
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK
3
Physik Department, Universität Siegen, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 57068, Siegen, Germany
4
Universitè Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405, Orsay, France
Received:
14
November
2024
Accepted:
20
December
2024
Published online:
10
March
2025
Motivated by recently observed anomalies in the flavour sector, we analyse the potential of measurements of top quarks at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to provide complementary constraints on interactions that shape low-energy precision investigations in the B sector. The measurement of top quark properties, such as the top width and the abundant top pair production channels, are already reaching the percent level at this relatively early stage of the LHC phenomenology program. A focused analysis of four-fermion interactions, employing effective field theory without flavour structure assumptions and incorporating renormalization group evolution effects, bridges B meson scale phenomena with key top quark measurements. We demonstrate that the LHC is increasingly competitive with, and complementary to, flavour physics constraints. Our results, which include a first comprehensive analysis of non-leptonic B decays in this context, suggest that the LHC’s top physics program could serve as a valuable, complementary tool in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model within the flavour sector.
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