Unitarity Constraints on Anomalous Top Quark Couplings to Weak Gauge Bosons

  • 24 July 1996
Abstract
If there is new physics associated with the top quark, it could show up as anomalous couplings of the top quark, such as $Z\ttbar$ and $W\tbbar$ vector and axial-vector couplings. We use the processes $\ttbar\to Z^0Z^0$, $\ttbar\to W^+W^-$, and $\ttbar\to Z^0H$ to obtain the unitarity constraints on these anomalous couplings, and combine these constraints with those from precision electroweak data. A nonzero measurement of such an anomalous coupling will put an upper limit on the new physics scale by the unitarity condition.

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