Pinning down electroweak dipole operators of the top quark
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Schulze, Markus; Soreq, Yotam
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We consider hadronic top quark pair production and pair production in association with a photon or a Z boson to probe electroweak dipole couplings in t[bar over b]W, t[bar over t]γ, and t[bar t]Z interactions. We demonstrate how measurements of these processes at the 13 TeV LHC can be combined to disentangle and constrain anomalous dipole operators. The construction of cross section ratios allows us to significantly reduce various uncertainties and exploit orthogonal sensitivity between the t[bar over t]γ and t[bar over t]Z couplings. In addition, we show that angular correlations in t[bar over t] production can be used to constrain the remaining t[bar over b]W dipole operator. Our approach yields excellent sensitivity to the anomalous couplings and can be a further step toward precise and direct measurements of the top quark electroweak interactions.
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2016-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
The European Physical Journal C
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Schulze, Markus, and Yotam Soreq. “Pinning down Electroweak Dipole Operators of the Top Quark.” The European Physical Journal C 76.8 (2016): n. pag. © 2015 by ASME
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1434-6044
1434-6052