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CP Violation in D0 - anti-D0 Oscillations: General Considerations and Applications to the Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity
The observed D0 - anti-D0 oscillations provide a new stage in our search for
New Physics in heavy flavour dynamics. The theoretical verdict on the observed
values of x_D and y_D remains ambiguous: while they could be totally generated
by Standard Model dynamics, they could also contain a sizable or even leading
contribution from New Physics. Those oscillations are likely to enhance the
observability of CP violation as clear manifestations of New Physics. We
present general formulae for D0 - anti-D0 oscillations, concentrating on the
case of negligible direct CP violation. In particular we derive a general
formula for the time-dependent mixing-induced CP asymmetry in decays to a CP
eigenstate and its correlation with the semileptonic CP asymmetry a_SL(D0) in
D0(t) -> l nu K. We apply our formalism to the Littlest Higgs model with
T-parity, using the time-dependent CP asymmetry in D -> K_S phi as an example.
We find observable effects at a level well beyond anything possible with CKM
dynamics. Comparisons with CP violation in the K and B systems offer an
excellent test of this scenario and reveal the specific pattern of flavour and
CP violation in the D0 - anti-D0 system predicted by this model. We discuss a
number of charm decays that could potentially offer an insight in the dynamics
of CP violation in D decays. We also apply our formalism to B_s - anti-B_s
mixing.Comment: 26 pages, 9 png figures, 1 table. v2: eq. (A.1) corrected, minor
clarifying comments and few references added. v3: typos corrected, matches
published versio
Top quark chromomagnetic dipole moment in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity
The littlest Higgs model with T-parity, which is called model, predicts
the existence of the new particles, such as heavy top quark, heavy gauge
bosons, and mirror fermions. We calculate the one-loop contributions of these
new particles to the top quark chromomagnetic dipole moment . We find that the contribution of the model is one order of magnitude
smaller than the standard model prediction value.Comment: latex files, 12 pages, 3 figure
Brief review of the searches for the rare decays and
The current experimental status of the searches for the very rare decays
and is discussed.
These channels are highly sensitive to various extensions of the Standard
Model, specially in the scalar and pseudoscalar sector. The recent, most
sensitive measurements from the CDF, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations are
discussed and the combined upper exclusion limit on the branching fractions
determined by the LHC experiments is shown to be for and for . The implications of these tight bounds on a selected set of New Physics
models is sketched.Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures, invited review for Modern Physics Letters
Minimal Flavour Violation and Beyond
Starting from the effective-theory framework for Minimal Flavour Violation,
we give a systematic definition of next-to-minimal (quark) flavour violation in
terms of a set of spurion fields exhibiting a particular hierarchy with respect
to a small (Wolfenstein-like) parameter. A few illustrative examples and their
consequences for charged and neutral decays with different quark chiralities
are worked out in some detail. Our framework can be used as a model-independent
classification scheme for the parameterization of flavour structure from
physics beyond the Standard Model.Comment: 17 pages, no figures, phenomenological discussion extended,
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Precise limits from lepton flavour violating processes on the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity
We recalculate the leading one-loop contributions to mu > e gamma and mu ->
eee in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity, recovering previous results for
the former. When all the Goldstone interactions are taken into account, the
latter is also ultraviolet finite. The present experimental limits on these
processes require a somewhat heavy effective scale ~2.5 TeV, or the flavour
alignment of the Yukawa couplings of light and heavy leptons at the ~10% level,
or the splitting of heavy lepton masses to a similar precision. Present limits
on tau decays set no bounds on the corresponding parameters involving the tau
leptonComment: 41 pages, 11 figures; v3: matches published version in JHE
Photon-induced production of the mirror quarks from the model at the
The photon-induced processes at the provide clean experimental
conditions due to absence of the proton remnants, which might produce
complementary and interesting results for tests of the standard model and for
searching of new physics. In the context of the littlest model with
T-parity, we consider the photon-induced production of the mirror quarks at the
. The cross sections for various production channels are calculated and a
simply phenomenology analysis is performed by assuming leptonic decays.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
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