Four tops and the t tbar forward-backward asymmetry

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2011-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/1112.3778v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

LaTeX 5 pages. Added results for 14 TeV. Final version to appear in PRD

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New colour octet vectors below the TeV scale could explain the anomalous t tbar forward-backward asymmetry observed at the Tevatron experiments, while being consistent with the current LHC data. These models generally lead to four-top final states at the LHC at observable levels. We compute the four-top production cross section at the LHC in a model with a massive colour octet vector as a function its mass, its width and its coupling to the top quark. Octet masses in the vicinity of the t tbar threshold are generally excluded by present limits on the production of same-sign dileptons and trileptons. Masses above 650 GeV are allowed, quite independently of the couplings, but they can be probed with the luminosity of 5 fb^-1 already collected at the LHC, up to around 800 GeV. The four-top production cross section is increased by a factor ~ 2 with sqrt{s}=8 TeV and by up to almost two orders of magnitude with sqrt{s}=14 TeV, thus greatly increasing the reach for massive gluons after the LHC energy upgrade.

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