Single top production via FCNC couplings at an $e^{-}{e}^{+}$ collider with center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=240$ GeV

Abstract

Aspects of top quark physics can be studied at a future Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC). In particular, Flavor-Changing Neutral Current interactions (FCNC) of the top quark can be studied even with a center-of-mass energy from $\sqrt{s}\gtrsim m_t$ to $\sqrt{s}=240$ GeV, through the production a single top quark in association with a charm quark, which can arise in several scenarios of new physics. We explore here this signal within the Left-Right Mirror Model, which is a Left-Right model that includes mirror fermions; this model is motivated as a possible solution to the strong CP problem and by its rich phenomenology. We find that for particular scenarios of the model parameters, which are in agreement with the most up-to-date experimental constraints, the signal coming from the process $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to V\to tc$ ($V=Z,Z^{\prime }$) provide a detectable signal and thus it can give evidence for FCNC interactions; in these scenarios the mass of a new neutral gauge boson can be as high as $m_{Z^{\prime }}=7$ TeV.

Comments: 14 pages and 11 figures, to be published in The European Physical Journal Plus