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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

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 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

We consider new physics explanations of the anomaly in the top quark forward-backward asymmetry measured at the Tevatron, in the context of flavor conserving models. The recently measured LHC dijet distributions strongly constrain many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Zoltan Ligeti , Gustavo Marques Tavares , Martin Schmaltz

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 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

Among different measured observables of top-antitop quark pairs at hadron colliders, the forward-backward asymmetry ($A_{\text{FB}}$) measured by the CDF and D0 collaborations has inconsistency with the Standard Model prediction. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-21 Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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

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

We examine the implications of the recent CDF measurement of the top-quark forward-backward asymmetry, focusing on a scenario with a new color octet vector boson at 1-3 TeV. We study several models, as well as a general effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Yang Bai , JoAnne L. Hewett , Jared Kaplan , Thomas G. Rizzo

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 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

We consider the top forward-backward (FB) asymmetry at the Tevatron and top charge asymmetry at the LHC within chiral U(1)^\prime models with flavor-dependent U(1)^\prime charges and flavored Higgs fields, which were introduced in the ref.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Ko , Yuji Omura , Chaehyun Yu

We review the asymmetries in top quark pair production at the Tevatron and the LHC. We summarize the experimental measurements and the interpretations of a possible excess in terms of new physics. We also review other top quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , D. Amidei , A. Juste , M. Perez-Victoria

We explore the possibility that the large $t\bar t$ forward-backward asymmetry measured by the CDF detector at Tevatron could be due to a universal effective axial-vector coupling of gluon. Using an effective field theory approach we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Emidio Gabrielli , Martti Raidal

We consider the recent measurement of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Fermilab Tevatron, which shows a discrepancy of slightly more than 2$\sigma$ compared to the SM prediction. We find that $t$-channel exchange of a color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Jing Shu , Tim M. P. Tait , Kai Wang

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 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

The anomalous forward-backward asymmetry (A_FB) in t tbar production at the Tevatron is in apparent contradiction with the t tbar charge asymmetry (A_C) measurements at the LHC, which agree well with the standard model predictions. We argue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-04 Jure Drobnak , Alexander L. Kagan , Jernej F. Kamenik , Gilad Perez , Jure Zupan

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
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