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Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector
Ist Teil von
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, 2016-02, Vol.76 (2)
This paper reports inclusive and differential measurements of the
t
t
¯
charge asymmetry
A
C
in
20.3
fb
-
1
of
s
=
8
T
e
V
p
p
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
t
¯
system. The
t
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
t
¯
event kinematics. A Bayesian unfolding procedure is performed to infer the asymmetry at parton level from the observed data distribution. The inclusive
t
t
¯
charge asymmetry is measured to be
A
C
=
0.009
±
0.005
(stat.
+
syst.). The inclusive and differential measurements are compatible with the values predicted by the Standard Model.