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Lorentz and CPT Violation in Top-Quark Production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-11-03 v1

Abstract

Signals for Lorentz and CPT violation can appear in a wide range of experiments including hadron colliders like the LHC. We present a calculation of the Lorentz-violating cross section for top-quark pair production via gluon fusion. This process dominates at the LHC, and analysis of LHC data should permit sharpening the constraints on top-quark Lorentz violation obtained recently by the D0 Collaboration. We also present a separate calculation of single-top production, which is sensitive to CPT violation. Data from the LHC can be used to measure coefficients for CPT violation in the top-quark sector for the first time.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00630,
  title  = {Lorentz and CPT Violation in Top-Quark Production},
  author = {Zhi Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00630},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015