A Note on Measuring Charm and Bottom Forward-Backward Asymmetries at the Tevatron

Understand

The forward-backward asymmetry A_{FB}^t in top quark production at the Tevatron has been seen to be anomalously large both by CDF and D0.

• Parton-level asymmetries as large as 50%, with a large error bar, have been extracted from the data.
• It is important to measure other quark asymmetries if possible, as these would help clarify the source of any new physics behind A_{FB}^t.
• In this note it is argued that asymmetries in b\bar b and c\bar c should be accessible to the Tevatron experiments, using the full data sets.