Probing new top physics at the LHCb experiment

Alexander L. Kagan; Jernej F. Kamenik; Gilad Perez; Sheldon Stone

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.082003

Probing new top physics at the LHCb experiment

Alexander L. Kagan, Jernej F. Kamenik, Gilad Perez, Sheldon Stone

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Abstract

We suggest that top quark physics can be studied at the LHCb experiment and that top quark production could be observed. Since LHCb covers a large pseudorapidity region in the forward direction, it has unique abilities to probe new physics in the top quark sector. Furthermore, we demonstrate that LHCb may be able to measure a tt̄ production rate asymmetry and, thus, indirectly probe an anomalous forward-backward tt̄ asymmetry in the forward region, a possibility suggested by the enhanced forward-backward asymmetry reported by the CDF experiment.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	082003
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.082003
State	Published - Aug 16 2011

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Kagan, A. L., Kamenik, J. F., Perez, G., & Stone, S. (2011). Probing new top physics at the LHCb experiment. Physical Review Letters, 107(8), [082003]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.082003

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