Speaker: 
Pankaj Sharma
Speaker affiliation: 
Korea Institut of Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
Date: 
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 17:15
Room: 
Building 44 (Shackleton) Lect. Theatre A
Title: 
Top polarization and New Physics at LHC
Abstract: 

I will discuss how top polarization can be utilized to probe new physics in various different top production processes. We find that lab-frame charged lepton distribution from top quark decay can be a useful probe of new physics. We construct various asymmetries sensitive to top polarization and new phsyics. We parametrize new physics in terms of anomalous Wtb couplings and top-chromomagnetic and chromoelectric dipole moments. We find that asymmetries we construct can put stringent constraints on different anomalous couplings.