Ultraboosted $Zt$ and $\gamma t$ production at the HL-LHC and FCC-hh

Abstract

Searches for anomalous $Zt$ and $\gamma t$ production provide an excellent probe of flavour-changing top interactions when the energies considered are very large. In this note we estimate the sensitivity to these interactions at the high luminosity phase of the LHC and a future 100 TeV $pp$ collider (FCC-hh). For the LHC, the expected limits on $t\to uZ/u\gamma$ branching ratios from $Zt$ and $\gamma t$ production will reach the $10^{-5}$ level, one order of magnitude better than the existing projections for $t\to uZ$ from $t\bar{t}$ production. For the FCC-hh, the limits on $t\to uZ/u\gamma$ could reach an impressive sensitivity at the $10^{-6}$ level, with limits on $t\to cZ/c\gamma$ at the $10^{-5}$ level.

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