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Tracking Down the Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry with Monotops

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-22 v2

Abstract

We revisit the possibility that the top quark forward-backward asymmetry arises from the on-shell production and decay of scalar top partners to top-antitop pairs with missing transverse energy. Although the asymmetry is produced by t-channel exchange of a light mediator, the model remains unconstrained by low energy atomic parity violation tests. An interesting connection to the active neutrino sector through a Type-I seesaw operator helps to evade stringent monojet constraints and opens up a richer collider phenomenology. After performing a global fit to top data from both the Tevatron and the LHC, we obtain a viable region of parameter space consistent with all phenomenological and collider constraints. We also discuss the discovery potential of a predicted monotop signal and related lepton charge asymmetry at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3712,
  title  = {Tracking Down the Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry with Monotops},
  author = {Abhishek Kumar and John N. Ng and Andrew Spray and Peter T. Winslow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3712},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

11 pages, 12 figures. Minor changes to text, matches version published in PRD

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