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MSSM corrections to the top-antitop quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron

  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Abstract

We study the effects of the complete supersymmetric QCD and electroweak one-loop corrections to the tt̄ forward-backward asymmetry at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̄ collider. We work in the complex Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), only restricted by the condition of minimal flavor violation (MFV). We perform a comprehensive scan over the relevant parameter space of the complex MFV-MSSM and determine the maximal possible contributions of these MSSM loop corrections to the forward-backward asymmetry in the tt̄ center-of-mass frame. We find that the SUSY loop-induced asymmetry at the Tevatron with Mtt̄ >450 GeV can be at most +2 % for very light SUSY particles, i. e. for mt̃1 <100 GeV and mmin = Min{mg̃, mũ,1,2, mdd̃1,2} <100 GeV, which reduces to 0. 1 % for gluino and squark masses in the range 850 GeV-1000 GeV and a light top squark of mt̃1 = 200 GeV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2114
Pages (from-to)1-14
Number of pages14
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume72
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2012

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