Correlations in flavor-changing tqZ couplings constrained via experimental data

TL;DR

This paper investigates model-independent flavor-changing tqZ couplings using effective field theory, revealing correlations among coupling parameters constrained by experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of flavor-changing tqZ couplings via dimension-6 operators, identifying correlations among their parameters based on experimental constraints.

Findings

Existence of correlations among coupling signs and magnitudes.

Constraints limit the parameter space of flavor-changing tqZ interactions.

Analysis is model-independent and based on effective Lagrangian approach.

Abstract

Possible non-standard tqZ couplings, where q=c or u, originated from general flavor-changing-neutral-current interactions are studied model-independently using the effective Lagrangian consisting of several SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) invariant dimension-6 operators. After the electroweak symmetry breaking, these operators are recombined to form four kinds of independent terms whose coefficients are complex in general. The Lagrangian could therefore include up to eight independent coupling parameters. Through searches for experimentally allowed regions of these parameters, it is found that some correlations exist among the signs and sizes of those couplings.