Probing the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector with the Top Quark

Abstract

A study on effective anomalous interactions up to dimension 5 of the top quark with the electroweak gauge bosons is made in the non-linear Chiral Lagrangian approach. Bounds on the anomalous dimension four terms are obtained from their contribution to low energy data. Also, the potential contribution to the production of top quarks at hadron colliders (the Tevatron and the LHC) and the electron Linear Collider from both dimension 4 and 5 operators is analysed.

60 pages, LaTeX, 22 eps figures, uses psfig.tex To appear on Acta Phys. Pol. B 27. Spelling, typos and some references have been corrected