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Effects of universal extra dimensions on top-quark electromagnetic interactions

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Pith's one-line read Kaluza-Klein effects on the top quark's magnetic moment and radiative flavor-changing decays are at least three orders of magnitude below Standard Model predictions for compactification scales from 1.4 to 5 TeV.

desk verdict A complete KK-mode calculation of the top AMM and radiative FCNC decays whose main negative conclusion is solid, despite a slightly overstated '3 orders' claim and the lack of independent verification of the KK Feynman rules. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.06226 v1 pith:DRE62TN2 submitted 2019-08-17 hep-ph

Javier Montaño , Héctor Novales-Sánchez , J. Jesús Toscano This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-ph PACS 11.10.Kk13.40.Em13.40.Hq14.65.Ha
keywords universalextradimensionsKaluza-Kleinmodestopquarkanomalousmagneticmomentflavor-changingneutralcurrentsradiativedecayscompactificationscaleone-loopcalculationsGIMmechanism
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The reading

Universal extra dimensions are models in which every Standard Model field also propagates through a tiny compact extra dimension; the paper asks whether this extra space would leave a visible mark on two top-quark observables that the Standard Model only generates through quantum loops: the top quark's anomalous magnetic moment (its extra magnetic strength beyond the basic spin value) and the radiative flavor-changing decays $t\to c\gamma$, $t\to u\gamma$, and $c\to u\gamma$. Working from the full 5-dimensional Standard Model, the authors build the complete Kaluza-Klein effective theory, compute every one-loop diagram in which KK excited states circulate, and find that all these new-physics contributions decouple as the compactification scale grows. For compactification scales in the allowed range $1.4\ \text{TeV} < R^{-1} < 5\ \text{TeV}$, the KK contributions to the top anomalous magnetic moment and to $\text{Br}(t\to c\gamma)$ sit three to four orders of magnitude below the Standard Model predictions. If the calculation is right, minimal universal extra dimensions are effectively invisible in these electromagnetic observables.

What carries the argument

The KK mass-eigenfield basis of the 5D Standard Model is the load-bearing object: after compactification on $S^1/Z_2$, gauge, scalar, and fermion fields expand into infinite KK towers, and bilinear mixings in the scalar and fermion sectors are diagonalized by angles $\xi^{(k)}=\tan^{-1}(m_{W^{(0)}}/m_{(k)})$, $\eta^{(k)}=\tan^{-1}(m_{Z^{(0)}}/m_{(k)})$, and $\theta_f^{(k)}$. The calculation runs on the Feynman rules built from these mass eigenfields, together with nonstandard gauge-fixing functions $f^{(k)j}$ and $f^{(k)}$ that cancel unphysical couplings such as $A$-$W$-$G$. The argument then uses the Passarino-Veltman reduction to express the one-loop form factors in terms of $B_0$ and $C_0$ functions, whose divergences cancel in differences, and expands at large $R^{-1}$ so that each KK sum becomes a Riemann zeta function, giving the $R^2$ and $R^4$ suppression pattern.

What would settle it

Recompute the exact one-loop form factors in Eqs. (A19)-(A22) and (B5)-(B12) using an independent implementation of the KK effective theory with a different gauge choice, such as Feynman-'t Hooft gauge for the zero modes; if the physical on-shell amplitudes for $a_t$ or $\text{Br}(t\to c\gamma)$ change by more than the stated order of magnitude, the central claim fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

At the paper's core is a complete one-loop calculation of the Kaluza-Klein contributions to the quark-photon vertex in the minimal five-dimensional Standard Model. The authors first construct the mass-eigenfield basis of the KK theory---vectors, scalars, pseudo-Goldstone bosons, and the two fermion towers per flavor---and use a nonstandard gauge-fixing sector to eliminate unphysical couplings. They then evaluate the full set of one-loop diagrams with KK excited modes in the loop, reduce the tensor integrals to Passarino-Veltman scalar functions, and show that the magnetic and electric form factors are ultraviolet finite because all divergent two-point functions enter only through differences. Expanding at large compactification scale, each KK level contributes powers of $(R/k)^2$, and the KK sums become Riemann zeta functions, so the leading new-physics effects scale as $R^2$ and $R^4$; the GIM mechanism then removes the leading $R^2$ terms from vector and pseudo-Goldstone contributions to flavor-changing decays, leaving physical-scalar diagrams dominant. The numerical consequence is that within $1.4\ \text{TeV} < R^{-1} < 5\ \text{TeV}$, both the top-quark anomalous magnetic moment and the branching ratios of $t\to c\gamma$, $t\to u\gamma$, and $c\to u\gamma$ receive KK corrections three to four orders of magnitude smaller than the corresponding Standard Model predictions.

Load-bearing premise

The whole calculation rests on the KK mass-eigenfield Feynman rules being exactly right---specifically the gauge-fixing functions $f^{(k)j}$ and $f^{(k)}$, the cancellations that remove $A$-$W$-$G$ and $A$-$W_s$-$G$ couplings, and the fermion mixing angles $\theta_f^{(k)}$; any slip in these rules would change the one-loop amplitudes, even if the overall decoupling pattern survived.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For any compactification scale above 1.4 TeV, the top quark's anomalous magnetic moment remains indistinguishable from the Standard Model value; current and near-future measurements of $a_t$ will not see minimal universal extra dimensions.
  • The branching ratio $\text{Br}(t\to c\gamma)$ receives KK corrections far below the Standard Model value of about $2.3\times 10^{-13}$ in the 1.4 to 5 TeV window, so searches for this decay are sensitive to the Standard Model, not to KK physics.
  • The same suppression applies to $t\to u\gamma$ and $c\to u\gamma$, meaning flavor-changing radiative top decays cannot be used to constrain the compactification scale.
  • Because individual KK contributions scale as $(R/k)^2$ and $(R/k)^4$, increasing $R^{-1}$ makes them decouple quickly; only the lowest KK levels matter numerically.
  • In this model the total KK contribution to the top anomalous magnetic moment is negative, dominated by Higgs-KK diagrams, which is a distinctive sign prediction of the minimal 5D Standard Model.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A natural extension not pursued here is to repeat the calculation with more than one extra dimension; the KK sums would then run over multi-indices and the effective suppression powers would change, so the three-to-four-order gap might shrink or grow.
  • If minimal universal extra dimensions are truly invisible in these top-quark electromagnetic observables, the model's discovery potential would rest on channels the paper does not analyze, such as missing-energy signatures, Higgs couplings, or $B\to X_s\gamma$.
  • An independent check would rerun the exact loop integrals in a different gauge and compare the physical form factors; agreement would confirm the gauge-fixing machinery, while disagreement would expose an error in the KK Feynman rules.
  • The paper's decoupling structure suggests that measuring the top quark's anomalous magnetic moment, even with the improved precision expected at future colliders, would not constrain $R^{-1}$; constraints would have to come from other observables.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper computes one-loop Kaluza-Klein (KK) contributions from the 5-dimensional Standard Model with one universal extra dimension to the anomalous magnetic moment (AMM) of u-type quarks, focusing on the top quark, and to the flavor-changing electromagnetic decays u(0)_α -> A(0)_μ u(0)_β, in particular t -> c γ. The calculation uses the KK effective Lagrangian developed by the same group, exact Passarino-Veltman expressions given in appendices, and leading large-compactification-scale expansions. The authors find that for R^{-1} between 1.4 TeV and 5 TeV the KK contributions are 3 to 4 orders of magnitude below the Standard-Model predictions, implying that minimal UED is effectively invisible in these observables.

Significance. If the calculation is correct, the paper provides a clean null result for minimal universal extra dimensions in top-quark electromagnetic observables, which is useful for the future top-quark precision program. The manuscript has several genuine strengths: the analytic treatment is ultraviolet finite and manifestly decoupling, the GIM mechanism is implemented in the quark-flavor sums, and the comparison of the t -> c γ branching ratio with the independent calculation in Ref. [44] is a valuable external cross-check. The paper also reproduces the known Standard-Model loop rates using loop-tools, which adds credibility to the numerical pipeline. These features make the central physical conclusion plausible, but two load-bearing points need to be fixed before the results can be regarded as established.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Section V] The headline claim that KK contributions are 'at least 3 orders of magnitude below Standard-Model predictions' is not supported by the paper's own numbers for the top-quark AMM. Table I gives a^KK_t = -3.3 x 10^-5 at R^{-1} = 1.4 TeV, while Section IV A quotes a^SM_t = 2 x 10^-2; the ratio is 1.65 x 10^-3, i.e. about 2.8 orders of magnitude, not 3. The same wording appears in the final paragraph of Section V. Since this quantitative statement is the central assertion of the paper, the abstract and conclusions should either be reworded to 'about 3 orders' with an explicit endpoint caveat, or the numerical analysis should show that the full one-loop result, rather than the leading R^{-2} approximation, brings the ratio below 10^-3 at 1.4 TeV.
  2. [Section II B and Section III, Figs. 1-3] The ghost sector L_G_KK is introduced in Section II B but never appears in the one-loop diagrams that define the electromagnetic vertex. Because the gauge-fixing functions f^(k)j and f^(k), Eqs. (12)-(13), are R_xi-type functions depending on ξ, and the selected couplings in Eqs. (25)-(27) explicitly contain 1/ξ terms, the KK one-loop amplitude in a general R_xi gauge receives contributions from charged KK ghost loops. The manuscript does not state the value of ξ used for the KK excited modes, nor does it prove that the sum of diagrams in Figs. 1-3 is ξ-independent without ghosts. Unless the authors specify that they work in the unitary gauge for the KK excited sector, or include the ghost loops, the exact form factors in Appendices A and B may be gauge dependent. This issue should be resolved before the numerical results can be considered reliable.
  3. [Appendices A and B] The exact one-loop expressions span many pages and are not machine-checkable from the text; no ancillary code, Mathematica notebook, or numerical table of the Passarino-Veltman inputs is provided. The paper states that the ultraviolet finiteness, the θ-angle cancellation leading to Eq. (38), and the elimination of the A-W-G and A-W_s-G couplings have been verified, but a referee cannot reproduce these checks from the manuscript alone. Given that the central numerical statements rely on these expressions, I ask that the authors supply a reproducible code or notebook, or alternatively a compactly derived leading-order expansion for each contribution that enters Table I and Figs. 4-11, so that the calculation can be verified.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Eq. (A19)] Equation (A19) contains the typographical expressions 'mu0α4' and 'sW 4'; these should read m_{u(0)_α}^4 and s_W^4.
  2. [References] Reference [86] lists the year as '9172'; it should be 1972. Reference [115] misspells 'Passarino' as 'Passatino'.
  3. [Fig. 5] In the lower graph of Fig. 5, the vertical axis is labeled a_t, but the two curves are a_t^SM and a_t^SM + a_t^KK; the axis label should be clarified.
  4. [Fig. 6 and Eqs. (44)-(45)] The notation S-hat and S-tilde in Eqs. (44)-(45) and in Fig. 6 is not defined in the figure caption; a brief reminder of which contribution corresponds to d^(k)_(1,γ) versus d^(k)_(2,γ) would help the reader.

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No circularity: the KK contributions are genuine one-loop outputs with no fitted parameters.

full rationale

The paper computes the KK contributions to the top-quark anomalous magnetic moment and to flavor-changing electromagnetic decays from the 5D Standard Model Lagrangian via standard one-loop Passarino-Veltman reduction. The compactification scale R^-1 is scanned over the externally bounded range 1.4-5 TeV, not fitted to the target observables. The SM inputs (quark masses, CKM elements, a_t^SM from Ref. [41], and Br(t->c gamma)_SM from Ref. [43]) are external; the SM branching ratio is independently reproduced with LoopTools, and the KK result for Br(t->c gamma) is compared to Ref. [44]. The GIM suppression is implemented through unitarity of the CKM matrix, a standard identity, and the decoupling behavior follows from the explicit R^2/R^4 structure of the one-loop integrals. The KK effective Lagrangian and gauge-fixing functions are taken from the authors' previous papers, but those papers do not contain the target results, and the present work re-derives the needed couplings in Eqs. (25)-(37), displays the exact Passarino-Veltman expressions in Appendices A and B, and verifies UV finiteness and decoupling. No equation in the derivation is equivalent to its input by construction, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The abstract's 'at least 3 orders' is slightly stronger than the Table I ratio at R^-1=1.4 TeV (about 2.8 orders for the top AMM), but this is an overstatement of the numerical result, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The model parameters are the input compactification scale and number of extra dimensions, plus standard SM inputs taken from PDG. The KK mixing angles are derived quantities, not free. No invented entities are introduced beyond the standard UED KK tower.

free parameters (2)
  • compactification scale R^{-1} = 1.4-5 TeV (scanned)
    Input scale of the UED model; not fitted to the target observables, but varied over the allowed range to quote the suppression.
  • number of extra dimensions n = 1
    Restricted to one universal extra dimension; the framework is developed for general n but numerical results assume n=1.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The 5D Standard Model on S1/Z2 with the stated parity assignments reproduces the 4D SM at zero mode and gives a consistent KK effective theory.
    Section II defines the model; the calculation is conditional on this UED setup.
  • domain assumption The standard and nonstandard gauge structures allow independent gauge fixing; the BRST quantization of the KK theory is consistent.
    Section II B; the cancellation of A-W-G couplings relies on this gauge fixing.
  • domain assumption The gamma5 redefinition of Ref [97] correctly resolves the wrong-sign KK fermion mass terms.
    Section II C; this affects the fermion mass-eigenbasis and couplings.
  • standard math Passarino-Veltman reduction and dimensional regularization with B0 differences yield finite form factors.
    Section III; standard one-loop techniques.

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Universal extra dimensions, presumably observable at some high-energy scale, would modify low-energy observables, being particularly relevant for physical processes forbidden at tree level by the Standard Model. We address the Kaluza-Klein contributions from the 5-dimensional Standard Model to the anomalous magnetic moment and to branching ratios of electromagnetic decays of the top quark. In accordance with present bounds on the compactification scale, contributions to both quantities are found to be at least 3 orders of magnitude below Standard-Model predictions.

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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: exhibits the low-energy AMM contribution a SM t , which corresponds to the horizontal line, together with the total contribution a SM t + a KK t , from both KK zero and excited modes, which has been represented by the dashed curve. B. Flavor-changing decays In this sub…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8: Real or imaginary parts of absolute values of con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_8.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: The branching ratio BR( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11: The branching ratio BR( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_11.png]

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