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arxiv: 1205.6182 · v1 · pith:UZLFPO6Tnew · submitted 2012-05-28 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

Top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron: the electroweak contribution

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Recent CDF and D0 measurements of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron present deviations between 1-sigma and 2-sigma from QCD predictions and a cut M_inv > 450 GeV on the events increases this deviation to 3.4 sigma in the CDF measurement. The inclusion of electroweak contributions of order alpha^2 and order alpha alphas^2 enlarges the theoretical prediction from QCD by a factor ~ 1.2 and diminishes the observed deviations. The calculation method is shortly discussed and numerical results are compared to the experimental data.

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