B_s(d) - bar B_s(d) mixing constraints on flavor changing decays of t and b quarks

TL;DR

This paper investigates flavor-changing quark-gluon operators involving third-generation quarks, deriving constraints from B_s(d) mixing data and exploring their potential detectability at the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of dimension 6 operators causing flavor-changing processes and establishes new limits on their couplings based on experimental data.

Findings

Derived upper limits on flavor-changing couplings from B_s(d) mixing.

Predicted branching ratios for t -> g + u(c) and b -> g + d(s) decays.

Suggested LHC experiments could probe these operators and related new physics.

Abstract

We study those dimension 6 effective operators which generate flavor-changing quark-gluon transitions of the third generation quarks, with t -> g + u(c) and b -> g + d(s), and which could be of interest for LHC experiments. We analyze the contribution of these operators to B_s(d) - bar B_s(d) mixing and derive limits on the corresponding effective couplings from the existing experimental data. The Standard Model gauge invariance relates these couplings to the couplings controlling t -> g + u(c). On this basis we derive upper limits for the branching ratios of these processes. We further show that forthcoming LHC experiments might be able to probe the studied operators and the physics beyond the Standard Model related to them.