Abstract

We study the DIS and photo-production modes of pairs at the proposed LHeC and its potential to probe the electromagnetic and weak dipole moments (MDM and EDM for ttγ) of the top quark. A framework of eight independent gauge invariant dimension six operators involving the top quark and the electroweak gauge bosons is used. Four of those operators modify the charged tbW coupling which can be probed through the single (anti) top production mode as reported in the literature. One generates ttγ(Z) as well as tbW couplings, while other two do not generate tbW but only ttγ(Z). Our focus is on the MDM and EDM of the top quark for which the photo-production mode of can be an excellent probe. At the proposed electron energies of Ee = 60 and 140 GeV the LHeC could set constraints stronger than the indirect limits from b → sγ and the potential limits of the LHC through production[1].

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