Top Quark Charge Asymmetry: Searching for Light Axigluons in top pair + jet Production at the LHC

Abstract

We investigate the discovery potential of light color-octet bosons in the mass range of 100 - 400 GeV in exclusive top-pair plus jet production at the LHC. We study the impact of such bosons on the incline, the energy and the rapidity asymmetries. We show that light axigluons with large couplings to quarks can be discovered at the LHC with a luminosity of a few inverse fb. Almost all of the considered axigluon parameter space can be probed using the already available 2011/2012 LHC data. In a small-coupling scenario, axigluons could be discovered using the charge asymmetry with 65 inverse fb at the LHC and a center of mass energy of 14 TeV. We furthermore show that top pair+jet production could reveal the existence of scenarios where axigluons couple with a different strength to up- and down-type quarks.

25 pages, 11 figures, 1 table

References in corpus (5)

• NLO QCD corrections to t tbar + jet production at hadron colliders
• Electroweak effects in top-quark pair production at Hadron Colliders
• Hadronic top-quark pair production in association with a hard jet at next-to-leading order QCD: Phenomenological studies for the Tevatron and the LHC
• Probing the Tevatron t tbar asymmetry at LHC
• Measurement of the inclusive leptonic asymmetry in top-quark pairs that decay to two charged leptons at CDF

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Measurement of the energy asymmetry in $t\bar{t}j$ production at 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment and interpretation in the SMEFT framework
• The top quark charge asymmetry in $t\bar{t}\gamma$ production at the LHC
• Observing the Top Energy Asymmetry at the LHC