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Several recent measurements at the Tevatron experiments point towards an anomalously large forward-backward asymmetry in top-antitop production. This article summarizes the main classes of physics beyond the standard model that can give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-18 Susanne Westhoff

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

In a truly model-independent approach, we reexamine a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) through the introduction of an additional $U(1)$ symmetry leading to a new neutral gauge boson ($Z'$), allowing its kinetic mixing with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Triparno Bandyopadhyay , Gautam Bhattacharyya , Dipankar Das , Amitava Raychaudhuri

We discuss the predictions of a constrained version of the exceptional supersymmetric standard model (cE6SSM), based on a universal high energy soft scalar mass m_0, soft trilinear coupling A_0 and soft gaugino mass M_1/2. We predict a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 P. Athron , S. F. King , D. J. Miller , S. Moretti , R. Nevzorov

We study Higgs boson masses in supersymmetric models with an extra U(1) symmetry to be called U(1)$^{\prime}$. Such extra gauge symmetries are urged by the $\mu$ problem of the MSSM, and they also arise frequently in low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Hale Sert , Elif Cincioglu , Durmus A. Demir , Levent Solmaz

The proposed Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), with center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}\approx 1.3$ TeV, provides a clean and sensitive environment to probe the top quark's neutral current interactions with the $Z$ boson via the process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Katlego Machethe , Pramod Sharma , Mukesh Kumar , Rafiqul Rahaman , Bruce Mellado

The large cross sections for gauge boson production at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might give a chance to determine the electroweak parameters with high precision. We calculated two different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Pittau , F. del Aguila , Ll. Ametller

In this Thesis two different parts can be distinguished. In the first one, after a review of the SM Higgs sector, I describe some scenarios for new physics such as Little Higgs and Supersymmetry and discuss our contributions in each of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-06 Roberto Barcelo

In the presence of the T-parity violating Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) anomaly term, the otherwise stable heavy photon A_H in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT) decays to either Standard Model (SM) gauge boson pairs, or to SM fermions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Andreas Nyffeler

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

Top pair production at LHC is the ideal place to search for nonstandard Wtb couplings in t -> W b -> l nu b decays. The lb forward-backward asymmetry in the W rest frame is very sensitive to sigma_{mu nu} couplings, and can spot one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. del Aguila , J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra

The latest and most precise top quark measurements at the LHC and Tevatron are used to establish new limits on the $Wtb$ vertex. Recent results on the measurements of the $W$-boson helicity fractions and single top quark production cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-05 J. L. Birman , F. Déliot , M. C. N. Fiolhais , A. Onofre , C. M. Pease

A minimal extension of the Standard Model containing the four-color quark-lepton symmetry is proposed and discussed. The existence of a rather light extra $Z'$-boson originated from the four-color quark-lepton symmetry is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 A. D. Smirnov

The sensitivity of top quark pair production at the Large Hadron Collider to the presence and nature of an underlying Z' boson is studied, accounting for six-fermion decay with full tree-level Standard Model ttbar interference and all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-15 Lucio Cerrito , Declan Millar , Stefano Moretti , Francesco Spanò

Using an effective Lagrangian approach, we perform a model-independent analysis of the interactions among electroweak gauge bosons and the third generation quarks, i.e. the Wtb, Ztt and Zbb couplings. After one imposes the known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-05 Edmond L. Berger , Qing-Hong Cao , Ian Low

We extract constraints on the parameter space of the MW model by comparing the cross-sections for dijet, top-pair, dijet-pair, $t\bar t t \bar t$ and $b\bar b b \bar b$ productions at the LHC with the strongest available experimental limits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-16 Alper Hayreter , German Valencia

An influence of the anomalous Wtb coupling on forward-backward asymmetry of top quark pair production at the Tevatron is investigated taking into account decays of the top quarks to 6 fermion final states containing one charged lepton. To…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Kolodziej

We present a class of warped extra dimension (composite Higgs) models which conjointly accommodates the t\bar t forward-backward asymmetry observed at the Tevatron and the direct CP asymmetry in singly Cabibbo suppressed D decays first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Leandro Da Rold , Cédric Delaunay , Christophe Grojean , Gilad Perez

We study the potential of a future $e^+e^-$ collider for the search of anomalous gamma t t bar and Z t t bar couplings, assuming that CP-invariance holds. This is done in a model-independent way, considering that all six possible couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. J. Gounaris , J. Layssac , F. M. Renard

We study the sensitivity of top-antitop samples produced at all energy stages of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the nature of an underlying Z' boson, in presence of full tree level standard model (SM) background effects and relative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Basso , K. Mimasu , S. Moretti