A minimal set of top anomalous couplings Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio Beyond Standard Model LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Fermion We simplify the general form of the fermion-fermion-gauge boson interactions generated by dimension-six gauge-invariant effective operators by using the equations of motion to remove redundant operators. It is found that the most general vertex for off-shell fermions fi, fj and an off-shell boson V=W,Z,gamma,g only involves gamma^mu and sigma^{mu nu} q_nu terms, with q=p_i-p_j. Examples are given for the Wtb, Ztt, gamma tt and gtt interactions, whose general expression is greatly simplified with respect to previous results in the literature. The same arguments apply to top flavour-changing neutral interactions with the Z boson, the photon or the gluon, which can also be parameterised in full generality with only gamma^mu and sigma^{mu nu} q_nu couplings. Explicit expressions are given for these vertices in terms of dimension-six gauge-invariant operators. We also discuss how effective operator coefficients might be determined from eventual measurements of anomalous couplings. 2014-02-27T11:56:19Z 2014-02-27T11:56:19Z 2009 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A. A minimal set of top anomalous couplings. Nuclear Physics B, 812(1-2): 181-204 (2009). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30593] 0550-3213 doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.12.012 arXiv:0811.3842v2 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30593 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Elsevier