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BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents

Since expected branching ratios for top Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) in the Standard Model are eagerly low, any experimental evidence for a top quark FCNC interaction would signal the existence of new physics. This contribution reports a study on FCNC observability in top decays with the...

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Autor principal: Benucci, Leonardo
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1166330
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description Since expected branching ratios for top Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) in the Standard Model are eagerly low, any experimental evidence for a top quark FCNC interaction would signal the existence of new physics. This contribution reports a study on FCNC observability in top decays with the CMS experiment. A wide variety of Standard Model processes have been considered into background and selection is optimized to maximize the significance in the signal region. A full set of systematic effects are added to the simulation and their impact on the analysis is established. Efforts are pushed to find a specific control region that can be addressed in the future samples. After 50 fb-1, the 95% C.L. exclusion limit for a t->q\gamma (t->qZ) is 1.19(7.6) 10^{-4}, improving the current limits by more than a order of magnitude.
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spelling cern-11663302019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1166330engBenucci, LeonardoBSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral CurrentsDetectors and Experimental TechniquesSince expected branching ratios for top Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNC) in the Standard Model are eagerly low, any experimental evidence for a top quark FCNC interaction would signal the existence of new physics. This contribution reports a study on FCNC observability in top decays with the CMS experiment. A wide variety of Standard Model processes have been considered into background and selection is optimized to maximize the significance in the signal region. A full set of systematic effects are added to the simulation and their impact on the analysis is established. Efforts are pushed to find a specific control region that can be addressed in the future samples. After 50 fb-1, the 95% C.L. exclusion limit for a t->q\gamma (t->qZ) is 1.19(7.6) 10^{-4}, improving the current limits by more than a order of magnitude.CMS-CR-2008-075oai:cds.cern.ch:11663302008-10-10
spellingShingle Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Benucci, Leonardo
BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
title BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
title_full BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
title_fullStr BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
title_full_unstemmed BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
title_short BSM measurements with Top at LHC: CMS sensitivity to Flavour Changing Neutral Currents
title_sort bsm measurements with top at lhc: cms sensitivity to flavour changing neutral currents
topic Detectors and Experimental Techniques
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/1166330
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