English

Top quark forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron and its implications at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The measurement of forward-backward asymmetry in the top and anti-top quark (ttˉt \bar{t}) production has been recently reconfirmed by the CDF Collaboration and shows a more than 3σ3\sigma deviation from the Standard Model(SM) prediction in the large ttˉt \bar{t} invariant mass region. Models with new W^{\prime} or Z^{\prime} bosons have been invoked to explain this deviation. In the context of these models we perform a χ2\chi^2 analysis with all the available experimental numbers in different ΔY\Delta Y and MttˉM_{t \bar{t}} bins. We show that for the ZZ^{\prime} model the region of parameter space which explain the Tevatron asymmetry can be probed in the same sign top production channel by Tevatron itself. Moreover, we consider a recently proposed observable, the one sided forward-backward asymmetry (AOFBA_{OFB}) at the LHC and conclude that both the W^{\prime} and Z^{\prime} models can lead to sizable AOFBA_{OFB} even at the LHC running at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV for the model parameters consistent with the Tevatron measurements.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1102.0545,
  title  = {Top quark forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron and its implications at the LHC},
  author = {Biplob Bhattacherjee and Sudhansu S. Biswal and Diptimoy Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0545},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures, discussions and references added, accepted for publication in Physical Review D (Rapid Communications)