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New colour octets stand out among the new physics proposals to explain the anomalous forward-backward asymmetry measured in \( t\overline{t} \) production by the CDF experiment at the Tevatron. We perform a fit to \( t\overline{t} \) observables at the Tevatron and the LHC, including total cross sections, various asymmetries and the top polarisation and spin correlations, to find the most likely parameters of a light colour octet to be consistent with data. In particular, an octet coupling only to right-handed quarks gives a good fit to all measurements. The implications from the general fit are drawn in terms of predictions for top polarisation observables whose measurements are yet not very precise, and observables which simply have not been measured.
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Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A. Portrait of a colour octet. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 172 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)172
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