https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134917001
Monte Carlo event generators & the top quark forward-backward asymmetry
1 Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Föhringer Ring 6, D-80805, Munich, Germany
2 PH-TH Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
3 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
a e-mail: jan.winter@cern.ch
b e-mail: peter.skands@cern.ch
c e-mail: webber@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
The leading-order accurate description of 
production, as usually employed in standard Monte Carlo event generators, gives no rise to the generation of a forward-backward asymmetry, AFB. Yet, non-negligible - differential as well as inclusive - asymmetries may be produced if coherent parton showering is used in the hadroproduction of top quark pairs. In this contribution we summarize the outcome of our study [1] of this effect. We present a short comparison of different parton shower implementations and briefly comment on the phenomenology of the colour coherence effect at the Tevatron.
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