UV physics from IR features: new prospects from top flavor violation

Autor: Altmannshofer, Wolfgang, Gori, Stefania, Lehmann, Benjamin V., Zuo, Jianhong
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. D 107, 095025 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.095025
Popis: New physics in the rare top decays $t \to q \ell^+\ell^-$ is currently very weakly constrained. We show that in a large class of Standard Model extensions, existing experimental constraints on new physics in flavor-conserving processes imply strong indirect bounds on new physics contributions to flavor-violating processes of the form $t \to q \ell^+\ell^-$. These indirect bounds arise from basic principles of quantum field theory together with a few generic conditions on the UV structure of the theory, and are roughly an order of magnitude stronger than the present experimental bounds on the same processes. These constraints provide a theoretically motivated target for experimental searches for $t \to q \ell^+\ell^-$: violation of these bounds would exclude a large class of new physics models, and would provide nontrivial insight into the UV behavior of the new physics.
Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures. Matched published version
Databáze: arXiv