Probing anomalous top quark interactions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider

Jun, 1998
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 58 (1998) 114003
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TU-545,
  • RCNS-98-11,
  • AMES-HET-98-03

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Abstract:
We study the effects of dimension-six operators contributing to the gttˉgt\bar t vertex in top quark pair production at the Tevatron collider. We derive both the limits from Run 1 data and the potential bounds from future runs (Run 2 and 3). Although the current constraints are not very strong, the future runs are quite effective in probing these operators. We investigate the possibility of disentangling different operators with the ttˉt\bar t invariant mass distribution and the top quark polarization asymmetry. We also study the effects of a different set of operators contributing to single top production via the WtbˉWt\bar b coupling. We derive the current and potential future bounds on these anomalous operators and find that the upgraded Tevatron can improve the existing constraints from RbR_b for one of the operators.
  • anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • quark: hadroproduction
  • quark: pair production
  • top
  • effective Lagrangian: operator
  • vertex function: (quark antiquark gluon)
  • quark: polarization
  • polarization: asymmetry
  • new interaction: search for
  • mass spectrum: (quark antiquark)