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arxiv: 1308.3712 · v2 · pith:UPRUQ2YUnew · submitted 2013-08-16 · ✦ hep-ph

Tracking Down the Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry with Monotops

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keywords asymmetrycolliderconstraintsenergyforward-backwardquarkactivealthough
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We revisit the possibility that the top quark forward-backward asymmetry arises from the on-shell production and decay of scalar top partners to top-antitop pairs with missing transverse energy. Although the asymmetry is produced by t-channel exchange of a light mediator, the model remains unconstrained by low energy atomic parity violation tests. An interesting connection to the active neutrino sector through a Type-I seesaw operator helps to evade stringent monojet constraints and opens up a richer collider phenomenology. After performing a global fit to top data from both the Tevatron and the LHC, we obtain a viable region of parameter space consistent with all phenomenological and collider constraints. We also discuss the discovery potential of a predicted monotop signal and related lepton charge asymmetry at the LHC.

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