Top-quark forward-backward asymmetry in Randall-Sundrum models beyond the leading order

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)039zbMATH Open1294.81266arXiv1008.0742MaRDI QIDQ406905FDOQ406905

Authors: S. Westhoff, Martin Bauer, Florian Goertz, Ulrich Haisch, Torsten Pfoh 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We calculate the ttbar forward-backward asymmetry, A_FB^t, in Randall-Sundrum (RS) models taking into account the dominant next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections in QCD. At Born level we include the exchange of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gluons and photons, the Z boson and its KK excitations, as well as the Higgs boson, whereas beyond the leading order (LO) we consider the interference of tree-level KK-gluon exchange with one-loop QCD box diagrams and the corresponding bremsstrahlungs corrections. We find that the strong suppression of LO effects, that arises due to the elementary nature and the mostly vector-like couplings of light quarks, is lifted at NLO after paying the price of an additional factor of alpha_s/(4 pi). In spite of this enhancement, the resulting RS corrections in A_FB^t remain marginal, leaving the predicted asymmetry SM-like. As our arguments are solely based on the smallness of the axial-vector couplings of light quarks to the strong sector, our findings are model-independent and apply to many scenarios of new physics that address the flavor problem via geometrical sequestering.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0742

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zbMATH Keywords

phenomenology of field theories in higher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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• The forward-backward asymmetry for massive bottom quarks at the \(Z\) peak at next-to-next-to-leading order QCD

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