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Title: Pinning down electroweak dipole operators of the top quark

Journal Article · · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
 [1];  [2]
  1. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Here, we consider hadronic top quark pair production and pair production in association with a photon or a Z boson to probe electroweak dipole couplings in tb¯W, tt¯γ, and tt¯Z interactions. We demonstrate how measurements of these processes at the 13 TeV LHC can be combined to disentangle and constrain anomalous dipole operators. The construction of cross section ratios allows us to significantly reduce various uncertainties and exploit orthogonal sensitivity between the tt¯γ and tt¯Z couplings. In addition, we show that angular correlations in tt¯ production can be used to constrain the remaining tb¯W dipole operator. Our approach yields excellent sensitivity to the anomalous couplings and can be a further step toward precise and direct measurements of the top quark electroweak interactions.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012567
OSTI ID:
1361700
Journal Information:
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 8; ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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