Inclusive and Differential Measurements of the t t ¯ Charge Asymmetry in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
Apyan, Aram
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Demiragli, Zeynep
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Date Issued
March 2016
Journal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier BV
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Khachatryan, V. et al. “Inclusive and Differential Measurements of the t t ¯ Charge Asymmetry in Pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Physics Letters B 757 (June 2016): 154–179 © 2016 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration
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Abstract
The tt¯ charge asymmetry is measured in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data, collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. Selected events contain an electron or a muon and four or more jets, where at least one jet is identified as originating from b-quark hadronization. The inclusive charge asymmetry is found to be 0.0010±0.0068 (stat)±0.0037 (syst). In addition, differential charge asymmetries as a function of rapidity, transverse momentum, and invariant mass of the tt¯ system are studied. For the first time at the LHC, the measurements are also performed in a reduced fiducial phase space of top quark pair production, with an integrated result of −0.0035±0.0072 (stat)±0.0031 (syst). All measurements are consistent within two standard deviations with zero asymmetry as well as with the predictions of the standard model.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.03.060
