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Forward-backward asymmetry of top quark in diquark models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-20 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Motivated by the recent unexpected large forward-backward asymmetry (FBA) of the top quark observed by D\O\O and CDF at the Tevatron, we investigate a possible explanation for the anomaly within the framework of diquark models. Unlike other mechanisms induced by s-channel or t-channel, the top-quark pair production in the diquark models is dictated by the u-channel diagram. We find that the color-triplet diquark can generate the FBA of 20% when the constraint from the cross section of the top-quark pair production is taken into account.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0911.4875,
  title  = {Forward-backward asymmetry of top quark in diquark models},
  author = {Abdesslam Arhrib and Rachid Benbrik and Chuan-Hung Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4875},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures. Discussion and figures improved. Version accepted for publication in PRD