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

Abstract

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.

16 pages, 6 figures. Matched published version

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