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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 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

The forward-backward asymmetry for top quarks measured in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron shows an interesting deviation from standard model expectations. Among possible interpretations, the exchange of a non-universal,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-16 Edmond L. Berger

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 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

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

At the LHC, top quark pairs are dominantly produced from gluons, making it difficult to measure the top quark forward-backward asymmetry. To improve the asymmetry measurement, we study variables that can distinguish between top quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Yang Bai , Zhenyu Han

Top quark pair production at proton-antiproton colliders is known to exhibit a forward-backward asymmetry due to higher-order QCD effects. We explore how this asymmetry might be studied at the Fermilab Tevatron, including how the asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. T. Bowen , S. D. Ellis , D. Rainwater

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

We analyze various models for the top quark forward-backward asymmetry ($A^t_{FB}$) at the Tevatron, using the latest CDF measurements on different $A^t_{FB}$s and the total cross section. The axigluon model in Ref. \cite{paul} has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Shu , Kai Wang , Guohuai Zhu

Motivated by recent measurements of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron, we study how t-channel new physics can contribute to a large value. We concentrate on a theory with an abelian gauge boson possessing flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Sunghoon Jung , Hitoshi Murayama , Aaron Pierce , James D. Wells

Top-quark pair production at the Tevatron is discussed within the Randall-Sundrum model of warped extra dimensions. Generically, the exchange of massive Kaluza-Klein gluons has the potential to generate a large forward-backward asymmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Susanne Westhoff

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 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

The large forward-backward asymmetry of the top quark pair production measured by the hadron colliders shed light on new physics signals beyond the Standard Model. In the Randall-Sundrum model with an additional SU(3) group in the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-02 Cheng Li , Cai-Dian Lu , Xiang-Dong Gao

The forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production at the Tevatron has long been in tension with the Standard Model prediction. One of the only viable new physics scenarios capable of explaining this anomaly is an s-channel axigluon-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthew Baumgart , Brock Tweedie

Both D0 and CDF at Tevatron reported the measurements of forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production, which showed possible deviation from the standard model QCD prediction. In this paper, we explore how to examine the {\em same}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 You-kai Wang , Bo Xiao , Shou-hua Zhu

In this paper, forward-backward asymmetry and differential cross section of top quark in flavor violating $Z'$ model up to $\mathscr{O}(\alpha_s^2 \alpha_X)$ at Tevatron are calculated. In order to account for the top observed large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-21 Bo Xiao , You-kai Wang , Shou-hua Zhu

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

The forward-backward asymmetry A_{FB}^t in top quark production at the Tevatron has been seen to be anomalously large both by CDF and D0. Parton-level asymmetries as large as 50%, with a large error bar, have been extracted from the data.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-04 Matthew J. Strassler
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