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arxiv: 1106.4054 · v1 · pith:O3SP55MKnew · submitted 2011-06-20 · ✦ hep-ph

Stealth gluons at hadron colliders

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keywords massquarkaxial-vectorcouplingsdecaygluonheavytevatron
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We find that a heavy gluon G of mass 800-900 GeV with small, mostly axial-vector couplings to the light quarks and relatively large vector and axial-vector couplings to the top quark can explain the t \bar{t} forward-backward asymmetry observed at the Tevatron with no conflict with other top-quark or dijet data. The key ingredient is a complete treatment of energy-dependent width effects and a new decay mode G->qQ, where q is a standard quark and Q a vector-like quark of mass 400--600 GeV. We show that this new decay channel makes the heavy gluon invisible in the t\bar{t} mass invariant distribution and discuss its implications at the Tevatron and the LHC.

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