Perspectives of detecting CKM-suppressed top quark decays at ILC

Abstract

Top quark decays are of particular interest as a mean to test the standard model (SM) predictions, both for the dominant ($t\to b+W$) and rare decays ($t\to q+W,cV,cVV,c{\varphi }^0,bWZ$). As the latter are highly suppressed, they become an excellent window to probe the predictions of theories beyond the SM. In particular, in this paper, we evaluate the corrections from new physics to the CKM-suppressed SM top quark decay $t\to q+W$ ($q=d,s$), both within the effective lagrangian approach and the MSSM and we discuss the perspectives to probe those predictions at the ILC.

Comments: 5 pages, 1 table. Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference: New Trends in High-Energy Physics, Crimea, September 2006