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hep-ph2011★ 280 cited

Probing Novel Scalar and Tensor Interactions from (Ultra)Cold Neutrons to the LHC

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Saul D. Cohen +5

Scalar and tensor interactions were once competitors to the now well-established V-A structure of the Standard Model weak interactions. We revisit these interactions and survey con…

hep-ph2011★ 23 cited

Spinning the Top

Adam Falkowski, Gilad Perez, Martin Schmaltz

We propose to measure the threshold lepton asymmetry, that is the forward-backward asymmetry of the charged lepton in ttbar events near the production threshold. At threshold top q…

hep-ph2011★ 204 cited

New Constraints on Neutrino Velocities

Andrew G. Cohen, Sheldon L. Glashow

The OPERA collaboration has claimed that muon neutrinos with mean energy of 17.5 GeV travel 730 km from CERN to the Gran Sasso at a speed exceeding that of light by about 7.5 km/s…

hep-ph2011★ 12 cited

Measuring the W-Boson mass at a hadron collider: a study of phase-space singularity methods

A. De Rújula, A. Galindo

The traditional method to measure the W-Boson mass at a hadron collider (more precisely, its ratio to the Z-mass) utilizes the distributions of three variables in events where the…

hep-ph2011★ 83 cited

Explaining the t-tbar asymmetry with a light axigluon

Gustavo Marques Tavares, Martin Schmaltz

We propose an axigluon with mass between 400 and 450 GeV and flavor universal couplings to quarks to explain the Tevatron t-tbar forward-backward asymmetry. The model predicts a sm…

hep-ph2011★ 477 cited

Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

Daniele Alves, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sanjay Arora +92

This document proposes a collection of simplified models relevant to the design of new-physics searches at the LHC and the characterization of their results. Both ATLAS and CMS hav…

hep-ph2011★ 29 cited

Discriminating Top-Antitop Resonances using Azimuthal Decay Correlations

Matthew Baumgart, Brock Tweedie

Top-antitop pairs produced in the decay of a new heavy resonance will exhibit spin correlations that contain valuable coupling information. When the tops decay, these correlations…

hep-ph2011★ 53 cited

Technicolor at the Tevatron

Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin

We propose that the 3.2 sigma excess at ~150 GeV in the dijet mass spectrum of W + jets reported by CDF is the technipion of low-scale technicolor. Its relatively large cross…

hep-ph2011★ 76 cited

Explaining the t tbar forward-backward asymmetry without dijet or flavor anomalies

Zoltan Ligeti, Gustavo Marques Tavares, Martin Schmaltz

We consider new physics explanations of the anomaly in the top quark forward-backward asymmetry measured at the Tevatron, in the context of flavor conserving models. The recently m…

hep-ph2011★ 16 cited

Toptet

Thomas Gregoire, Emanuel Katz, Veronica Sanz

Final states with four tops appear in various extensions of the Standard Model. Alas, top reconstruction faces combinatorial issues as they show up as large multiplicity events. In…