Top-quark Yukawa coupling with a dimension-6 operator

Abstract

We extend the standard top-quark Yukawa coupling with a dimension-6 operator in order to accommodate a CP violating complex phase with manifest gauge invariance. This leads to a new $ttHH$ contact interaction, along with many Goldstone boson couplings. We investigate the impact of the new interactions on a muon collider process $\mu^-\mu^+\to \nu_\mu\bar{\nu}_\mu t\bar{t}H$ compared with the standard dimension-4 top-Yukawa coupling. The unitarity bounds on the coefficient of the new physics operator is obtained from $W^-_LW^+_L$ and $HH$ initiated processes.