4–11 Jul 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

Diagnosing top-quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry

6 Jul 2012, 11:00
15m
Room 216 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

Room 216

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia

Speaker

Dr Sudhir Kumar Gupta (Monash University (AU))

Description

Recent measurements on the top-quark forward-backward asymmetry (A_FB) by the two (CDF & D0) Tevatron experiments show a more than 3 sigma deviation from the Standard Model prediction from the SM expectation of 5.2 ± 0.6%. Later about 3.1sigma enhancement was established on the basis of considering top-pairs only from the large tt_bar invariant mass region. In this talk, we will discuss about the diagnostic tests performed by us for the the aforementioned observation and provide some detail on the nature of the correct BSM model that causes such a large deviation.

Primary author

Dr Sudhir Kumar Gupta (Monash University (AU))

Co-authors

Amarjit Soni (BNL) David Atwood (Iowa State University)

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