Top Quark Interactions and the Search for New Physics

Abstract

We give a complete set of 19 independent effective dimension 5 interactions involving the top and bottom quarks with the electroweak gauge bosons within the context of the chiral Lagrangian. The anomalous operators contribute to the leading energy power E^3 of the V_L V_L -> t\bar t or t\bar b amplitudes. We also show the top quark production rates at the LHC and the LC via V_L V_L fusion processes. If no anomalous production rate is found, then these coefficients can be bound (based on the naive dimensional analysis) to be of order 10^{-2} or 10^{-1}. This is about an order of magnitude more stringent than the bounds for the next-to-leading order bosonic operators commonly studied in V_L V_L -> V_L V_L scatterings. The effect on a CP-odd observable is also briefly discussed.

48 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps figures, uses psfig.tex. To appear on Phys. Rev. D. Corrections in several sections, and in some equations, including amplitudes. Spelling, typos and some references have been corrected

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