Studying Same-Sign Top Pair Production through Top-Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL-LHC

We investigate the potential of the HL-LHC for discovering new physics effects via the same-sign top pair signatures. We focus on the semileptonic (electron and muon) decay of the top quarks and study the reach for a simplified model approach where top quark flavor changing could occur through a neu...

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Main Authors: O. M. Ozsimsek, V. Ari, O. Cakir
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4299254
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description We investigate the potential of the HL-LHC for discovering new physics effects via the same-sign top pair signatures. We focus on the semileptonic (electron and muon) decay of the top quarks and study the reach for a simplified model approach where top quark flavor changing could occur through a neutral scalar exchange. A relatively smaller background contribution and clean signature are the advantages of the leptonic decay mode of the same-sign W bosons in the same-sign production processes of top quark pairs. Assuming the FCNC between top quark, up-type quark, and scalar boson from the new physics interactions, the branchings could be excluded of the order O10−4. We use angular observables of the same-sign lepton pairs and the top quark kinematics in the process which provide the possibility of separation of new physics signal from the SM backgrounds using machine-learning techniques. We find that the same-sign top quark pair production is quite capable of testing the top-Higgs FCNCs at the HL-LHC.
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spelling doaj-art-fab805e1283740718bdc32f43a0f6b882025-02-03T05:58:49ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73652022-01-01202210.1155/2022/4299254Studying Same-Sign Top Pair Production through Top-Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL-LHCO. M. Ozsimsek0V. Ari1O. Cakir2Hacettepe UniversityDepartment of PhysicsDepartment of PhysicsWe investigate the potential of the HL-LHC for discovering new physics effects via the same-sign top pair signatures. We focus on the semileptonic (electron and muon) decay of the top quarks and study the reach for a simplified model approach where top quark flavor changing could occur through a neutral scalar exchange. A relatively smaller background contribution and clean signature are the advantages of the leptonic decay mode of the same-sign W bosons in the same-sign production processes of top quark pairs. Assuming the FCNC between top quark, up-type quark, and scalar boson from the new physics interactions, the branchings could be excluded of the order O10−4. We use angular observables of the same-sign lepton pairs and the top quark kinematics in the process which provide the possibility of separation of new physics signal from the SM backgrounds using machine-learning techniques. We find that the same-sign top quark pair production is quite capable of testing the top-Higgs FCNCs at the HL-LHC.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4299254
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Studying Same-Sign Top Pair Production through Top-Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL-LHC
Advances in High Energy Physics
title Studying Same-Sign Top Pair Production through Top-Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL-LHC
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title_full_unstemmed Studying Same-Sign Top Pair Production through Top-Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL-LHC
title_short Studying Same-Sign Top Pair Production through Top-Higgs FCNC Interactions at the HL-LHC
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