Top Decay in Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor

Abstract

Conventional technicolor models with light charged technipions (${\pi }_T^{\pm }$) lead to an unacceptably large contribution to $t\ra {π^+_T} b$ decay rate. Topcolor-assisted technicolor models also have additional PGBs called top-pions (${\pi }_t^{\pm }$) which may contribute to this decay. We study the potentially dangerous mixing of charged top-pion and technipions in toy models of `natural' topcolor-assisted technicolor. We find that the $t\ra {π^+_{t,T}} b$ decay rate in such models can be within experimental limits due to a combination of heavy top-pion and small ${\pi }_t-{\pi }_T$ mixing.

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