Tuesday, May 29, 2012

1205.6182 (Davide Pagani)

Top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron: the electroweak
contribution
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Davide Pagani
Recent CDF and D0 measurements of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron present deviations between 1-sigma and 2-sigma from QCD predictions and a cut M_inv > 450 GeV on the events increases this deviation to 3.4 sigma in the CDF measurement. The inclusion of electroweak contributions of order alpha^2 and order alpha alphas^2 enlarges the theoretical prediction from QCD by a factor ~ 1.2 and diminishes the observed deviations. The calculation method is shortly discussed and numerical results are compared to the experimental data.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6182

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