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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 propose an axigluon with mass between 400 and 450 GeV and flavor universal couplings to quarks to explain the Tevatron t-tbar forward-backward asymmetry. The model predicts a small negative asymmetry for t-tbar pairs with invariant mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Gustavo Marques Tavares , Martin Schmaltz

The CDF and D0 collaborations have observed a forward-backward asymmetry in t-tbar production at large invariant mass in excess of the standard model prediction. One explanation involves a heavy color octet particle with axial vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Mirjam Cvetič , James Halverson , Paul Langacker

A larger than expected forward-backward asymmetry in rapidity is observed in top quark pairs produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron. The asymmetry is seen in both the top quark distribution $A_{FB}^t$ and in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-18 Edmond L. Berger , Qing-Hong Cao , Chuan-Ren Chen , Jiang-Hao Yu , Hao Zhang

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

Motivated by the recent unexpected large forward-backward asymmetry (FBA) of the top quark observed by D$\O$ and CDF at the Tevatron, we investigate a possible explanation for the anomaly within the framework of diquark models. Unlike other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Abdesslam Arhrib , Rachid Benbrik , Chuan-Hung Chen

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

CDF has observed a top forward-backward asymmetry discrepant with the Standard Model prediction at 3.4 \sigma. We analyze models that could generate the asymmetry, including flavor-violating W's, horizontal Z'_Hs, triplet and sextet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Moira I. Gresham , Ian-Woo Kim , Kathryn M. Zurek

We present a measurement of forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production in proton-antiproton collisions in the final state containing a lepton and at least four jets. Using a dataset corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 D0 Collaboration

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

I calculate the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron in both the laboratory frame and the $t{\bar t}$ rest frame. I show that soft-gluon corrections are the dominant contribution to the asymmetry and closely approximate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-13 Nikolaos Kidonakis

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

Within the paradigm of warped extra dimensions, third generation quarks are expected to be the most sensitive to effects beyond the Standard Model. The anomalies observed at the LEP and Tevatron colliders in the forward-backward asymmetries…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Djouadi , G. Moreau , F. Richard

In order to explain the Tevatron anomaly of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry $A_{FB}^t$ in the left-right twin Higgs model, we choose to give up the lightest neutral particle of $\hat{h}$ field as a stable dark matter candidate.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Lei Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang

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 anomaly of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry $A^t_{FB}$ observed at the Tevatron can be explained by the t-channel exchange of a neutral gauge boson (Z') which has sizable flavor changing coupling for top and up quarks. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Junjie Cao , Lin Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang

The top forward-backward asymmetry (FBA) observed at the Tevatron has been a hot issue in particle physics for the last few years. In this talk, I describe two different approaches for the top FBA at the Tevatron, one in effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-09 P. Ko

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 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