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Recent results from the CDF Collaboration indicate the the top-pair forward-backward asymmetry is largest in regions of high rapidity difference $|\Delta y|$ and invariant mass $M_{t\bar t}.$ We show that experimental observations can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Vernon Barger , Wai-Yee Keung , Chiu-Tien Yu

The measured forward-backward asymmetry in top pair events at the Fermilab Tevatron collider deviates significantly from the standard model expectation. Several models have been proposed to describe the observed asymmetry which grows with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-25 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

In light of the recent measurements of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Fermilab Tevatron experiment, which in some regions of the parameter space shows a discrepancy of 3$\sigma$ compared to the SM prediction, we analyze top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Mariana Frank , Alper Hayreter , Ismail Turan

The recent forward-backward asymmetry recorded by the CDF Collaboration for the top and anti-top quark pair production indicates more than $2\sigma$ deviation from the Standard Model prediction, while its total production cross section…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-04 Kingman Cheung , Wai-Yee Keung , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

The measurement of forward-backward asymmetry in the top and anti-top quark ($t \bar{t}$) production has been recently reconfirmed by the CDF Collaboration and shows a more than $3\sigma$ deviation from the Standard Model(SM) prediction in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Sudhansu S. Biswal , Diptimoy Ghosh

The top quark forward-backward asymmetry measured at the Fermilab Tevatron collider deviates from the standard model prediction. A W^prime boson model is described, where the coupling W^prime-t-d is fixed by the tt_bar forward-backward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel Duffty , Zack Sullivan , Hao Zhang

A search is presented for charge-asymmetric production of a W' boson that has been proposed to accommodate the forward-backward asymmetry observed in the production of top-antitop quark pairs at the Tevatron. The new heavy W' boson would be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-01-29 CMS Collaboration

Recently it has been shown that measurement of charge asymmetry of top pair production at LHC excludes any flavor violating $Z'$ vector gauge boson that could explain Tevatron forward-backward asymmetry (FBA). We consider the general form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Seyed Yaser Ayazi

The measurement of the top forward-backward asymmetry in $\ttbar$ production measured at the Tevatron shows deviation from the Standard Model prediction. A $ u \to t$ transition via a flavor changing $Z^{\prime}$ can explain the data. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-03 Murugeswaran Duraisamy , Ahmed Rashed , Alakabha Datta

The top quark forward-backward asymmetry A_{FB}^t measured at the Tevatron is above the Standard Model prediction by more than 2-sigma deviation, which might be a harbinger for new physics. In this work we examine the contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Junjie Cao , Zhaoxia Heng , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang

The Tevatron has measured a discrepancy relative to the Standard Model prediction in the forward-backward asymmetry in top quark pair production. This asymmetry grows with the rapidity difference of the two top quarks. It also increases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Sudhansu S. Biswal , Subhadip Mitra , Rui Santos , Pankaj Sharma , Ritesh K. Singh , Miguel Won

The top quark forward-backward asymmetry measured at the Tevatron collider shows a large deviation from standard model expectations. Among possible interpretations, a non-universal $Z^\prime$ model is of particular interest as it naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 Edmond L. Berger , Qing-Hong Cao , Chuan-Ren Chen , Chong Sheng Li , Hao Zhang

The forward-backward asymmetry $A_{FB}$ in top quark pair production, measured at the Tevatron, is probably related to the contribution of new particles. The Tevatron result is more than a $2\sigma$ deviation from the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 E. Ramirez Barreto , Y. A. Coutinho , J. Sá Borges

We calculate the forward backward asymmetry of the top-pair production at TEVATRON up to next to leading order (NLO) in the little Higgs model (LHM). We find that the contribution of $Z_H$ can be large enough to make up the gap between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-24 Xing-Dao Guo , Yin-Jie Zhang , Shu-Min Zhao , Tai-Fu Feng , Xu-Hao Yuan , Xue-Qian Li

We consider Z' and W' models recently proposed to explain the top forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron. We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to associated production of such vector bosons together with top quarks at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 J. Adelman , J. Ferrando , C. D. White

We adopt a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to examine various new physics models which can generate the forward-backward asymmetry in top quark pair production observed at the Tevatron by the CDF Collaboration. We study the following new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Qing-Hong Cao , David McKeen , Jonathan L. Rosner , Gabe Shaughnessy , Carlos E. M. Wagner

The CDF and D0 experiments have reported on the measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of top quark pair production at the Tevatron and the result is that it is more than 2 standard deviations above the predicted value in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-24 Abdelhak Djouadi , Gregory Moreau , Francois Richard , Ritesh K. Singh

Measurements of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry performed at the Tevatron suggest that new-physics may be playing a role in t-tbar production. To better understand the source of the asymmetry, recent proposals have called for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Dilani Kahawala , David Krohn , Matthew J. Strassler

We computed the bottom-quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron in the Standard Model and for several new physics scenarios. Near the $Z$-pole, the SM bottom asymmetry is dominated by tree level exchanges of electroweak gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-14 Benjamín Grinstein , Christopher W. Murphy

We compute, for top quark pair production at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider, the collider-independent forward-backward asymmetries defined in [1] in the standard model at next-to-leading order in QCD, including also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , W. Bernreuther , Z. -G. Si
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