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Color & weak triplet scalars, the dimuon asymmetry in Bs decay, the top forward-backward asymmetry, and the CDF dijet excess

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)003

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model; B-Physics; CP violation; Hadronic Colliders

Funding

  1. U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory [DE-AC52-06NA25396]

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The new physics required to explain the anomalies recently reported by the D0 and CDF collaborations, namely the top forward-backward asymmetry (FBA), the like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry in semileptonic b decay, and the CDF dijet excess, has to feature an amount of flavor symmetry in order to satisfy the severe constrains arising from flavor violation. In this paper we show that, once baryon number conservation is imposed, color & weak triplet scalars with hypercharge Y = -1/3 can feature the required flavor structure. The color & weak triplet model can simultaneously explain the top FBA and the dimuon charge asymmetry or the dimuon charge asymmetry and the CDF dijet excess. However, the CDF dijet excess appears to be incompatible with the top FBA in the minimal framework. Our model for the dimuon asymmetry predicts the observed pattern h(d) << h(s) in the region of parameter space required to explain the top FBA, whereas our model for the CDF dijet anomaly is characterized by the absence of beyond the SM b-quark jets in the excess region. Compatibility of the color & weak triplet with the electroweak constraints is also discussed. We show that a Higgs boson mass exceeding the LEP bound is typically favored in this scenario, and that both Higgs production and decay can be significantly altered by the triplet. The most promising collider signature is found if the splitting among the components of the triplet is of weak scale magnitude.

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