TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the top quark pair production charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdel-Khalek, S.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abi, B.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Thomsen, Lotte Ansgaard
AU - Mehlhase, Sascha
AU - Jørgensen, Morten Dam
AU - Pingel, Almut Maria
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Pedersen, Lars Egholm
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
PY - 2014/2/25
Y1 - 2014/2/25
N2 - This paper presents a measurement of the top quark pair (tt̄) production charge asymmetry AC using 4.7 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 7TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A tt̄-enriched sample of events with a single lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum and at least four high transverse momentum jets, of which at least one is tagged as coming from a b-quark, is selected. A likelihood fit is used to reconstruct the tt̄ event kinematics. A Bayesian unfolding procedure is employed to estimate AC at the parton-level. The measured value of the tt̄ production charge asymmetry is AC = 0.006 ± 0.010, where the uncertainty includes both the statistical and the systematic components. Differential AC measurements as a function of the invariant mass, the rapidity and the transverse momentum of the tt̄- system are also presented. In addition, AC is measured for a subset of events with large tt̄ velocity, where physics beyond the Standard Model could contribute. All measurements are consistent with the Standard Model predictions.
AB - This paper presents a measurement of the top quark pair (tt̄) production charge asymmetry AC using 4.7 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 7TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A tt̄-enriched sample of events with a single lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum and at least four high transverse momentum jets, of which at least one is tagged as coming from a b-quark, is selected. A likelihood fit is used to reconstruct the tt̄ event kinematics. A Bayesian unfolding procedure is employed to estimate AC at the parton-level. The measured value of the tt̄ production charge asymmetry is AC = 0.006 ± 0.010, where the uncertainty includes both the statistical and the systematic components. Differential AC measurements as a function of the invariant mass, the rapidity and the transverse momentum of the tt̄- system are also presented. In addition, AC is measured for a subset of events with large tt̄ velocity, where physics beyond the Standard Model could contribute. All measurements are consistent with the Standard Model predictions.
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)107
DO - 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)107
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2014
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
IS - 177
M1 - 107
ER -