Single top quark production as a probe of anomalous $tq\gamma$ and $tqZ$ couplings at the FCC-ee

Abstract

In this paper, a detailed study to probe the top quark Flavour-Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) $tq\gamma$ and $tqZ$ at the future $e^{-}{e}^{+}$ collider FCC-ee in three different center-of-mass energies of 240, 350 and 500 GeV is presented. A set of useful variables are proposed and used in a multivariate technique to separate signal $e^{-}{e}^{+}\to Z/\gamma \to t\bar{q}(\bar{t}q)$ from standard model background processes. The study includes a fast detector simulation based on the {\sc delphes} package to consider the detector effects. The $3\sigma$ discovery regions and the upper limits on the FCNC branching ratios at 95\% confidence level (CL) in terms of the integrated luminosity are presented. It is shown that with 300 fb${}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity of data, FCC-ee would be able to exclude the effective coupling strengths above $\mathcal{O}(10^{-4}-10^{-5})$ which is corresponding to branching fraction of $\mathcal{O}(0.01-0.001)$\%. We show that moving to a high-luminosity regime leads to a significant improvement on the upper bounds on the top quark FCNC couplings to a photon or a $Z$ boson.

21 Pages, 6 Figures, 8 Tables

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