Theorie-Palaver

Dec. 13, 2010 at 3 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEP

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

The top quark charge asymmetry at Tevatron and the LHC
German Rodrigo (IFIC Valencia)


The most recent measurements at Tevatron of the charge asymmetry in top-antitop quark pair production reduce the discrepancy with the Standard Model from 2sigma to 1.7sigma, and open a little window, at 95% C.L., for negative contributions to the charge asymmetry beyond the SM. We update our analysis for colour octet gauge bosons or axigluons in flavour universal and flavour non universal scenarios. We review other possible models and make an educated guess on their parameter space allowed by the new measurements. Finally, we comment on the prospects to measure the charge asymmetry at the LHC.