Articulo
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Autor
Anduaga, Xabier Sebastián
Dova, María Teresa
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Tripiana, Martín F.
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
Institución
Resumen
A measurement of the top-antitop production charge asymmetry <i>A<sub>C</sub></i> is presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb<sup>−1</sup> of pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are selected with a single lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum and at least four jets of which at least one jet is identified as coming from a b-quark. A kinematic fit is used to reconstruct the t ̄t event topology. After background subtraction, a Bayesian unfolding procedure is performed to correct for acceptance and detector effects. The measured value of <i>A<sub>C</sub></i> is <i>A<sub>C</sub></i> = −0.019±0.028 (stat.)±0.024 (syst.), consistent with the prediction from the MC@NLO Monte Carlo generator of <i>A<sub>C</sub></i> = 0.006 ± 0.002. Measurements of <i>A<sub>C</sub></i> in two ranges of invariant mass of the top-antitop pair are also shown. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas