The Top Quark Forward Backward Asymmetry, Flavor, and New Strong Interactions

by Dr Alex Kagan (Cincinnati)

Friday 1 Jul 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

We show that the forward-backward asymmetry in top quark pair production can be enhanced by fields that transform nontrivially under flavor symmetries, while at the same time the constraints from associated effects on the M_ttbar spectrum, dijet resonance searches, same sign and single top production, and FCNC's are satisfied. We focus on realizations in the context of new strong interactions. The models predict the existence of new sub-TeV composite flavor nonet vectors and flavor triplet up quarks.

Slides FlavorandAFBcern.pdf