Forward-backward Asymmetry and Differential Cross Section of Top Quark in Flavor Violating Z' model at $\mathscr{O}(\alpha_s^2 \alpha_X)$
In this paper, forward-backward asymmetry and differential cross section of top quark in flavor violating Z' model up to O(α 2 s α X ) at Tevatron are calculated. In order to account for the top observed large forward-backward asymmetry, the new coupling g X among Z' and quarks will be not much less than strong coupling constant g s . After including the new higher order correction, the differential cross section can fit the data better than those only including the leading contributions from Z', while the forward-backward asymmetry is still in agreement with the measurement.

title: One-side forward-backward asymmetry at the LHC
abstract: Forward-backward asymmetry AFB is an essential observable to study the nature of coupling in the standard model and physics beyond the standard model, as shown at LEP and Tevatron. As a proton-proton collider, the LHC does not have the preferred direction contrary to her counterpart, namely, LEP and Tevatron. Therefore AFB is not applicable at the LHC. However for the proton the momentum of valence quark is usually larger than that of the sea quark. Utilizing this feature we have defined a so-called one-side forward-backward asymmetry AOFB for the top quark pair production at LHC in the previous work. In this paper we extend our studies to the charged leptons and bottom quarks as the final states. Our numerical results show that at the LHC AOFB can be utilized to study the nature of the couplings once enough events are collected.

title: New color-octet axial vector boson revisited
abstract: In this paper we reexamine how to utilize the previous proposed color-octet axial-vector boson Z(C) to explain the 3: 4 sigma anomaly of t (t) over bar forward-backward (FB) asymmetry A(FB) for m(t (t) over bar) > 450 GeV observed by CDF. Our numerical results indicate that the best-fit parameters are g(A)(q) = 0: 07, g(A)(Q) 3, and M(C) 440 GeV, which are obtained by fitting the mass dependent AFB and total cross section data provided by a recent CDF measurement. Here g(A)(q) (g(A)(Q)) and MC are the axial couplings among Z(C) with the first two (the third) generation quarks, and Z(C) mass, respectively. We also calculate one-side forward-backward asymmetry AOFB for top and bottom quark pair production at the LHC, focusing on the new contributions from Z(C). Our studies show that AOFB can be utilized to measure the properties of new particle Z(C).

title: One-side forward-backward asymmetry in top quark pair production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
abstract: Both D0 and CDF at Tevatron reported the measurements of forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production, which showed possible deviation from the standard model QCD prediction. In this paper, we explore how to examine the same higher-order QCD effects at the more powerful Large Hadron Collider.

title: Edge Charge Asymmetry in Top Pair Production at the LHC
abstract: In this brief report, we propose a new definition of charge asymmetry in top pair production at the LHC, namely the edge charge asymmetry (ECA). ECA utilizes the information of drifting direction only for single top (or anti-top) with hadronically decay. Therefore ECA can be free from the uncertainty arising from the missing neutrino in the tt̄ event reconstruction. Moreover rapidity Y of top (or anti-top) is required to be greater than a critical value YC in order to suppress the symmetric tt̄ events mainly due to the gluongluon fusion process. In this paper ECA is calculated up to next-to-leading order QCD in the standard model and the choice of the optimal YC is investigated. ∗ E-mail:homenature@pku.edu.cn † E-mail:wangyk@pku.edu.cn ‡ E-mail:zhongqiu zhou@pku.edu.cn § E-mail:shzhu@pku.edu.cn

title: Measurement of Drell-Yan cross sections and flavor asymmetry in the nucleon sea
abstract: Measurements of Drell-Yan cross sections from the bombardment of liquid deuterium and hydrogen with an 800 GeV proton beam are reported. The relative cross section (σpd/2σpp) directly probes the ratio of anti-down (d) to anti-up (ū) quarks in the nucleon sea, while absolute measurement of the deuterium cross section constrain d+ū. Results are compared with previous experiments and next-to-leading order calculations based on current sets of parton distribution functions.

title: Constraints on flavor-changing neutral-current $Htq$ couplings from the signal of $tH$ associated production with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC
abstract: We study a generic Higgs boson and a top quark associated production via model-independent flavor-changing neutral-current couplings at the LHC, including complete QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to the production and decay of the top quark and the Higgs boson. We find that QCD NLO corrections can increase the total production cross sections by about 48.9% and 57.9% for the Htu and Htc coupling induced processes at the LHC, respectively. After kinematic cuts are imposed on the decay products of the top quark and the Higgs boson, the QCD NLO corrections are reduced to 11% for the Htu coupling induced process and almost vanish for the Htc coupling induced process. Moreover, QCD NLO corrections reduce the dependence of the total cross sections on the renormalization and factorization scales. We also discuss signals of the

title: Relic Vector Field and CMB Large Scale Anomalies
abstract: We study the most general effects of relic vector fields on the inflationary background and density perturbations. Such effects are observable if the number of inflationary e-folds is close to the minimum requirement to solve the horizon problem. We show that this can potentially explain two CMB large scale anomalies: the quadrupole-octopole alignment and the quadrupole power suppression. We discuss its effect on the parity anomaly. We also provide analytical template for more detailed data comparison.

title: First results on the hybrid photodiode tube
abstract: The performance of a new breed of light detectors based on a photocathode followed by a planar silicon diode working in the bombarding mode is reported. This detector was developed by the LAA project in order to produce a fast light detector capable of covering a span of the more than 4 orders of magnitude of linearity required by the scintillating fibre and lead (“spaghetti”) calorimeter. Linear signals from single, to more than 10 6 photoelectrons per pulse were measured. The general characteristics of this detector are reported here.

title: Anomalous High Energy Dependence in Inflationary Density Perturbations
abstract: We study the contribution of spectator massive scalar fields to the inflationary density perturbations through the universal gravitational coupling. We find that such contribution has several remarkable properties: it does not decrease as the mass of the spectator field increases; it has a significant size and cannot be turned off by any adjustable parameters; and it applies to all massive scalars existed during inflation, making the overall effect unexpectedly large. As a result, the primordial density perturbations are anomalously sensitive to the high energy physics.