Measurements of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the dilepton final state at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Summary, in English

Measurements of the top-antitop quark pair production charge asymmetry in the dilepton channel, characterized by two high-pT leptons (electrons or muons), are presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Inclusive and differential measurements as a function of the invariant mass, transverse momentum, and longitudinal boost of the tt system are performed both in the full phase space and in a fiducial phase space closely matching the detector acceptance. Two observables are studied: ACℓℓ based on the selected leptons and ACtt based on the reconstructed tt final state. The inclusive asymmetries are measured in the full phase space to be ACℓℓ=0.008±0.006 and ACtt=0.021±0.016, which are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions of ACℓℓ=0.0064±0.0003 and ACtt=0.0111±0.0004. © 2016 CERN.

• Author: G Aad; B. Abbott; J Abdallah; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; R Aben; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; LENE BRYNGEMARK; Caterina Doglioni; Anders Floderus; Anthony Hawkins; Vincent Hedberg; Jenny Ivarsson; Göran Jarlskog; Else Lytken; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2016
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.032006
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1550-2368