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Top Quarks, Axigluons and Charge Asymmetries at Hadron Colliders
Axigluons are colored heavy neutral gauge boson that couple to quarks through
an axial vector current and the same strong coupling as gluons. The most
important model-independent manifestation of axigluons is the generation of a
forward--backward asymmetry in top-antitop quark production at
collisions which originates from the charge asymmetry. We update our previous
analysis for the inclusive QCD induced forward--backward asymmetry and define a
new observable which is more sensitive to the effect than the forward--backward
asymmetry. Furthermore, we find a lower limit of 1.2 TeV at 90% C.L. on the
axigluon mass from recent measurements of the asymmetry at Tevatron. Also at
LHC, the charge asymmetry is sizable in suitably selected samples. We evaluate
this asymmetry in the central region for different selection cuts and show
that, like at Tevatron, the charge asymmetry can probe larger values of the
axigluon mass than the dijet mass distribution.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
Top pair Asymmetries at Hadron colliders with general couplings
Recently it has been shown that measurement of charge asymmetry of top pair
production at LHC excludes any flavor violating vector gauge boson that
could explain Tevatron forward-backward asymmetry (FBA). We consider the
general form of a gauge boson including left-handed, right-handed vector
and tensor couplings to examine FBA and charge asymmetry. To evaluate top pair
asymmetries at Tevatron and LHC, we consider mixing constraints on
flavor changing couplings and show that this model still explain
forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron and charge asymmetry can not exclude it
in part of parameters space.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure
Charge asymmetry in high-energy photoproduction in the electric field of a heavy atom
The charge asymmetry in the differential cross section of high-energy
photoproduction in the electric field of a heavy atom is obtained.
This asymmetry arises due to the Coulomb corrections to the amplitude of the
process (next-to-leading term with respect to the atomic field). The deviation
of the nuclear electric field from the Coulomb field at small distances is
crucially important for the charge asymmetry. Though the Coulomb corrections to
the total cross section are negligibly small, the charge asymmetry is
measurable for selected final states of and . We further discuss
the feasibility for experimental observation of this effect.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Top-Quark Charge Asymmetry with a Jet Handle
Pairs of top and antitop quarks are produced at the LHC to a large extent in
association with a hard jet. We investigate the charge asymmetry in top pair +
jet production in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and with additional massive
color-octet vector bosons. The total charge asymmetry at the LHC is suppressed
by the large charge-symmetric background from gluon-gluon fusion. We show to
what extent the asymmetry can be enhanced by suitable phase space cuts and, in
particular, elaborate on the kinematics of the hard jet in the top pair + jet
final state. We demonstrate that in QCD, the asymmetry amounts to -1.5% for
central jets without an excessive reduction of the cross section. By applying
additional kinematical cuts, the asymmetry can be enhanced to -4%, but at the
cost of a strong reduction of the cross section. Massive color-octet states can
generate sizeable effects in top pair + jet production, both on the charge
asymmetry and on the cross section. The charge asymmetry probes both vector and
axial-vector couplings to quarks. We show that massive color octets can
generate asymmetries up to +-10% for moderate and up to +-30% for strong
kinematical cuts to be used in experimental analyses at the LHC. Jet kinematics
can be used to obtain further information about the nature of the couplings and
thereby to discriminate between different models.Comment: 29 pages, 12 figure
Holography, charge and baryon asymmetry
The reason for baryon asymmetry in our universe has been a pertinent question
for many years. The holographic principle suggests a charged preon model
underlies the Standard Model of particle physics and any such charged preon
model requires baryon asymmetry. This note estimates the baryon asymmetry
predicted by charged preon models in closed inflationary Friedmann universes.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, clarified discussion of comparison with
observation
Charge asymmetry and symmetry properties
Applying general symmetry properties of electromagnetic interaction,
information from electron proton elastic scattering data can be related to
charge asymmetry in the annihilation channels and to the ratio of the cross section of elastic electron and positron
scattering on the proton. A compared analysis of the existing data allows to
draw conclusions on the reaction mechanism.Comment: Contribution to XIII Workshop On High Energy Spin Physics (DSPIN),
Dubna, Russia September 1 - 5, 2009 8 pages 3 figure
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