Dark decay of the top quark
We suggest top quark decays as a venue to search for light dark force carriers. The top quark is the heaviest particle in the standard model whose decays are relatively poorly measured, allowing sufficient room for exotic decay modes from new physics. A very light (GeV scale) dark gauge boson (Z...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 2014-04, Vol.89 (7), Article 074007 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We suggest top quark decays as a venue to search for light dark force carriers. The top quark is the heaviest particle in the standard model whose decays are relatively poorly measured, allowing sufficient room for exotic decay modes from new physics. A very light (GeV scale) dark gauge boson (Z') is a recently highlighted hypothetical particle that can address some astrophysical anomalies as well as the 3.6[sigma] deviation in the muon g - 2 measurement. We present and study a possible scenario that top quark decays as t arrow right bW +Z's. This is the same as the dominant top quark decay (t arrow right bW) accompanied by one or multiple dark force carriers. The Z' can be easily boosted, and it can decay into highly collimated leptons (lepton-jet) with large branching ratio. We discuss the implications for the Large Hadron Collider experiments including the analysis based on the lepton-jets. |
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ISSN: | 1550-7998 1550-2368 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.074007 |