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Forward-Backward t tbar Asymmetry from Anomalous Stop Pair Production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We analyse a simple Standard Model (SM) extension with only two new light fields: a scalar partner of the top (stop) (with mass above m_t) and a light neutral fermion chi^0 (with mass of a few GeV), coupled to SM quarks via a Yukawa interaction. We show that such model can lead to a significant enhancement of the forward-backward asymmetry in t tbar production at the Tevatron via the additional t tbar pairs produced from (stop anti-stop) decays. The model satisfies existing constraints on new-physics searches both at low and high energies, and could even address the cosmological dark-matter abundance. The implications for future searches at the LHC are briefly outlined.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0016,
  title  = {Forward-Backward t tbar Asymmetry from Anomalous Stop Pair Production},
  author = {Gino Isidori and Jernej F. Kamenik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0016},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure; few typos and numerical errors corrected; extended phenomenological discussions; added note on the possible impact in W+jj; conclusions unchanged