Correlations in flavor-changing tqZ couplings constrained via experimental data

Abstract

Possible non-standard tqZ couplings, where q=c or u, originated from general flavor-changing-neutral-current interactions are studied model-independently using the effective Lagrangian consisting of several SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) invariant dimension-6 operators. After the electroweak symmetry breaking, these operators are recombined to form four kinds of independent terms whose coefficients are complex in general. The Lagrangian could therefore include up to eight independent coupling parameters. Through searches for experimentally allowed regions of these parameters, it is found that some correlations exist among the signs and sizes of those couplings.

arXiv commentFinal version published in Europhysics Letters

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