The Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production

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• Bryan Webber (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge)
• Wednesday 04 May 2011, 14:15-15:15
• MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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According to the Standard Model, top quark pair production at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider should exhibit a small forward-backward asymmetry, of the order of 5%. The CDF Collaboration has recently reported an asymmetry that is significantly larger, approaching 50% at high values of the pair invariant mass. The talk will discuss the experimental results, some suggested explanations, and the prospects for clarification at the Large Hadron Collider.

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