Determination of Wtb anomalous coupling at the ILC

TL;DR

This paper investigates how to measure Wtb anomalous couplings at the ILC using top quark pair production, emphasizing the importance of b-quark identification and the advantages of the collider's clean environment.

Contribution

It introduces a methodology for determining Wtb anomalous couplings at the ILC, focusing on the all-hadronic decay channel and detector optimization.

Findings

Effective identification of b quarks enhances sensitivity to anomalous couplings.

The ILC environment allows for precise measurement of sensitive observables.

The study supports detector design improvements for better coupling determination.

Abstract

We present a study of experimental determination of the Wtb anomalous couplings in the $t\bar{t}$ process at the International Linear Collider in the framework of effective field theory. The theory predicts several observables that are particularly sensitive to the couplings including the asymmetry of the bottom quark angular distributions. These observables require excellent identification capabilities for the b quark in a detector. We describe tools needed for the identification with particular emphasis on determination of the quark charge and b-tagging together with generic selections for the $t\bar{t}$ events. The focus of the study is on the all hadronic decay channel which provides the largest statistics. In the study we demonstrate advantages of the clean environment of the ILC that allow a precise measurement of the observables. We also explain how this process can be used for optimisation of ILC detector in the context of the SiD detector concept