Speaker
Reza Goldouzian
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Description
Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18461 (TOP-22-003)
A search is presented for baryon number violating interactions in top quark production and decay. Upper limits are placed on the strength of baryon number violating couplings. For the first time the production of single top quarks via baryon number violating interactions is studied. This allows the search to set the most stringent constraints to date on the branching fraction of the top quark decay to a lepton, an up-type quark (u or c), and a down-type quark (d, s, or b). The results improve the previous bounds by three to six orders of magnitude based on the fermion flavor combination of the baryon number violating interactions.
