Top LHCb Physics

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of the LHCb experiment to study top quark physics, including observing top production and measuring asymmetries, offering a new approach to probe physics beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

It demonstrates that LHCb can uniquely study top physics and measure tar t asymmetries in the forward region, providing new avenues for new physics searches.

Findings

LHCb can observe top production at the LHC.

LHCb may measure tar t asymmetries in the forward region.

Potential to probe anomalous forward-backward asymmetry.

Abstract

We suggest that top physics can be studied at the LHCb experiment, and that top production could be observed. Since LHCb covers a large pseudorapidity region in the forward direction, it has unique abilities to probe new physics in the top sector. Furthermore, we demonstrate that LHCb may be able to measure a t\bar t production rate asymmetry, and thus indirectly probe an anomalous forward backward t\bar t asymmetry in the forward region; a possibility suggested by the enhanced forward-backward asymmetry reported by the CDF experiment.