Implications at the LHC of BSM interpretations of CDF's ttbar forward-backward asymmetry and Wjj anomaly

Friday 6 May 2011, 14:00 → 18:30 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

A review of the various BSM models proposed as possible interpretations of the anomalous foward-backward asymmetry in t-tbar production and the mass peak in Wjj final states, reported by CDF, with a discussion of the implications and possible signatures at the LHC.

For more details on the CDF analyses, see:
http://arXiv.org/pdf/1101.0034
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/new/top/2011/DilAfb/cdfpubnote.pdf
and
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/new/top/2010/tprop/Afb/cdfnote_10224_public_v02_for_10185_ttbarAfbDeltay.pdf

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For those attending, information on accommodation, access to CERN and laptop registration is available from http://lpcc.web.cern.ch/LPCC/index.php?page=visit

1 Introduction

2 Prospects for measuring the top charge asymmetry in CMS

Speaker: Roberto Chierici (CNRS/IPNL)

Slides AsymmetryTalk.pdf AsymmetryTalk.ppt

3 Prospects for measuring the top charge asymmetry in LHCb

Speaker: Anna Phan (University of Melbourne)

Slides aphan_lhcb.pdf

4 Invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with one lepton and missing transverse energy at the ATLAS experiment

https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/CONFNOTES/ATLAS-CONF-2011-069/

Speakers: Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory), Matthias Schott (CERN)

Slides W2Jets_LPCC.pdf W2Jets_LPCC.ppt

5 The top quark in warped models: LHC predictions from Tevatron anomalies

Speaker: Gregory Moreau

Slides AFB-CERN.pdf

6 Asymmetric Left-Right Model for AFB: W' and Z' signals at the LHC

http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0279

Speaker: Chiu-Tien Yu

Slides CERN-LPCC.pdf

7 An effective approach to same sign top pair production at the LHC and the forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron

http://arXiv.org/abs/1104.1798

Speaker: Christophe Grojean (CERN-PH-TH)

Slides Grojean_top_LPCC.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

8 LHC signals with dijet final states

Speakers: Javi Serra Marí (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Michele Papucci (Unknown)

Slides CDF-dijets.pdf

9 LHC signals with top quark final states

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides mangano-discussion.pdf

10 Flavour aspects of models for AFB and Wjj

Speaker: Andreas Weiler

11 Lepton and heavy quark asymmetries

Speaker: Terrance Maynard Figy

Slides LPCC_tmf.pdf

12 Discussion