Decays of the Heavy Top and New Insights on ${\epsilon }_K$ in a one-VLQ Minimal Solution to the CKM Unitarity Problem

Abstract

We propose a minimal extension of the Standard Model where an up-type vector-like quark, denoted $T$, is introduced and provides a simple solution to the CKM unitarity problem. We adopt the Botella-Chau parametrization in order to extract the $4\times 3$ quark mixing matrix which contains the three angles of the $3\times 3$ CKM matrix plus three new angles denoted ${\theta }_{14}$, ${\theta }_{24}$, ${\theta }_{34}$. It is assumed that the mixing of $T$ with standard quarks is dominated by ${\theta }_{14}$. Imposing a recently derived, and much more restrictive, upper-bound on the New Physics contributions to ${\epsilon }_K$, we find, in the limit of exact ${\theta }_{14}$ dominance where the other extra angles vanish, that ${\epsilon }_K^{\text{NP}}$ is too large. However, if one relaxes the exact ${\theta }_{14}$ dominance limit, there exists a parameter region, where one may obtain ${\epsilon }_K^{\text{NP}}$ in agreement with experiment while maintaining the novel pattern of $T$ decays with the heavy quark decaying predominantly to the light quarks $d$ and $u$. We also find a reduction in the decay rate of $K_L\to {\pi }^o\nu \bar{\nu }$.

33 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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