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Flavor-changing top quark decay within the minimal supersymmetric standard model

1995; American Physical Society; Volume: 52; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevd.52.1713

1538-4500

G. Couture, C. Hamzaoui, Heinz König,

Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

We present the results of the gluino and scalar quark contribution to the flavor-changing top quark decay into a charm quark and a photon, gluon, or a ${\mathit{Z}}^{0}$ boson within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We include the mixing of the scalar partners of the left- and right-handed top quark. This mixing has several effects, the most important of which is to greatly enhance the c Z decay mode for large values of the soft SUSY-breaking scalar mass ${\mathit{m}}_{\mathit{S}}$ and to give rise to a GIM-like suppressions in the c \ensuremath{\gamma} mode for certain combinations of parameters.