1. Top-quark decay into Higgs boson and a light quark at next-to-leading order in QCD.
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Cen Zhang and Maltoni, Fabio
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TOP quarks , *HIGGS bosons , *QUANTUM chromodynamics , *STANDARD model (Nuclear physics) , *DECAY rates (Radioactivity) , *FIELD theory (Physics) - Abstract
Neutral flavor-changing transitions are hugely suppressed in the Standard Model and therefore they are very sensitive to new physics. We consider the decay rate of t → uih where ui = u,c using an effective field theory approach. We perform the calculation at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD including the relevant dimension-six operators. We find that at NLO the contribution from the flavor-changing chromomagnetic operator is as important as the standard QCD correction to the flavor-changing Yukawa coupling. In addition to improving the accuracy of the theoretical predictions, the NLO calculation provides information on the operator mixing under the renormalization group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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