We review and update current limits on possible anomalous couplings of the top quark to gauge bosons.
We consider data from top quark decay (as encoded in the $W$-boson helicity fractions) and single-top production (in the $t$-, $s$- and $Wt$-channels).
We find improved limits with respect to previous results (in most cases of almost one order of magnitude) and extend the analysis to include four-quark operators.
We find that new electroweak physics is constrained to live above an energy scale between 430 GeV and 3.2 TeV (depending on the form of its contribution); strongly interacting new physics is bounded by scales higher than 1.3 or 1.5 TeV (again depending on its contribution).
Limits on anomalous top quark gauge couplings from Tevatron and LHC data · Around
[CMS Collaboration], “Measurement of the W-boson helicity in top decays from ttbar production in lepton+jets events at the LHC at sqrt(s)=8 TeV,” CMS-PAS-TOP-13-008