Electroweak contribution to the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron

The electroweak contributions to the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of top-quark pairs at the Tevatron are evaluated at O(α²) and O(ααₛ²). We perform a detailed analysis of all partonic channels that produce an asymmetry and combine them with the QCD contributions. They provide a non-negligible addition to the QCD-induced asymmetry with the same overall sign, thus enlarging the standard model prediction and diminishing the observed deviation. For the observed mass-dependent forward-backward asymmetry a 3σ deviation still remains at an invariant-mass cut of Mtt̄>450 GeV.