Higgs mediated Double Flavor Violating top decays in Effective Theories

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential for detecting double flavor violating top quark decays mediated by a light Higgs boson at future colliders, using an effective Lagrangian approach to set constraints and predict branching ratios.

Contribution

It introduces a model-independent effective Lagrangian framework for flavor violating top decays and predicts branching ratios that could be observable at future collider experiments.

Findings

Branching ratios could reach 10^{-4} to 10^{-5}.

Future colliders can potentially discover or rule out these decays.

Constraints from low-energy data limit the flavor violating vertices.

Abstract

The possibility of detecting double flavor violating top quark transitions at future colliders is explored in a model-independent manner using the effective Lagrangian approach through the $t \to u_i\tau \mu$ ($u_i=u,c$) decays. A Yukawa sector that contemplates $SU_L(2)\times U_Y(1)$ invariants of up to dimension six is proposed and used to derive the most general flavor violating and CP violating $q_iq_jH$ and $l_il_jH$ vertices of renormalizable type. Low-energy data, on high precision measurements, and experimental limits are used to constraint the $tu_iH$ and $H\tau \mu$ vertices and then used to predict the branching ratios for the $t \to u_i\tau \mu$ decays. It is found that this branching ratios may be of the order of $ 10^{-4}-10^{-5}$, for a relative light Higgs boson with mass lower than $2m_W$, which could be more important than those typical values found in theories beyond the standard model for the rare top quark decays $t\to u_iV_iV_j$ ($V_i=W,Z,\gamma, g$) or $t\to u_il^+l^-$. %% LHC experiments, by using a total integrated luminosity of $\rm 3000 fb^{-1}$ of data, will be able to rule out, at 95% C.L., DFV top quark decays up to a Higgs mass of 155 GeV/$c^2$ or discover such a process up to a Higgs mass of 147 GeV/$c^2$.