Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Taylor, Frank E
Date Issued
February 2016
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The European Physical Journal C
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Springer-Verlag
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Atlas Collaboration et al. “Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production in the Lepton-plus-Jets Final State in Pp Collision Data at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” The European Physical Journal C 76.2 (2016): n. pag. © 2016 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
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Abstract
This paper reports inclusive and differential measurements of the t[bar over t] charge asymmetry A[subscript C] in 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of s√= 8 TeVs pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Three differential measurements are performed as a function of the invariant mass, transverse momentum and longitudinal boost of the t[bar over t] system. The t[bar over t] pairs are selected in the single-lepton channels (e or μ) with at least four jets, and a likelihood fit is used to reconstruct the t[bar over t] event kinematics. A Bayesian unfolding procedure is performed to infer the asymmetry at parton level from the observed data distribution. The inclusive t[bar over t] charge asymmetry is measured to be AC=0.009±0.005 (stat. + syst.). The inclusive and differential measurements are compatible with the values predicted by the Standard Model.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3910-6
