English

Top quark and leptonic charge asymmetries for the Tevatron and LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2

Abstract

We compute, for ttˉt \bar t production at the LHC and at the Tevatron, several charge asymmetries to NLO QCD, including also the electromagnetic and weak-interaction corrections. We calculate these asymmetries both inclusively and with additional kinematic cuts and compare our results, where possible, with recent experimental results and with SM predictions. The ttˉt \bar t asymmetries induce also corresponding asymmetries for the charged leptons from semileptonic top-quark decay. Although these asymmetries are, in the SM, smaller than the corresponding ones for top quarks, they are expected to be measurable quite precisely. In fact, measurement of a lepton asymmetry in \ell + jets events was reported by the D\emptyset and CDF experiments. We analyze and compute to NLO in the gauge couplings leptonic charge asymmetries for dileptonic and semileptonic \ttbar\ttbar events, with and without acceptance cuts, at the Tevatron and the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1205.6580,
  title  = {Top quark and leptonic charge asymmetries for the Tevatron and LHC},
  author = {Werner Bernreuther and Zong-Guo Si},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6580},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Some references and a note added on comparisons with recent experimental results. Published in Phys. Rev. D 86, 034026 (2012)