Resolving the Tevatron Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry Puzzle: Fully Differential Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order Calculation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Czakon, Michal ^a   Fiedler, Paul ^a   Mitov, Alexander ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

FORWARD-BACKWARD ASYMMETRY; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; HADRON COLLIDERS; NEXT TO NEXT TO LEADING ORDERS; NEXT-TO-LEADING ORDERS; PAIR PRODUCTION; SCATTERING PROCESS; STANDARD MODEL;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84938872729     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.052001     Document Type: Article

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