First measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top quark pair production

Collaboration, D0 and Bertram, Iain and Borissov, Guennadi and Fox, Harald and Love, Peter and Rakitin, Alexander and Ratoff, Peter and Sopczak, Andre and Williams, Mark (2008) First measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top quark pair production. Physical review letters, 100 (14): 142002. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

We present the first measurement of the integrated forward-backward charge asymmetry in top-antitop quark pair (ttbar) production in proton-antiproton collisions in the lepton plus jets final state. Using a b-jet tagging algorithm and kinematic reconstruction assuming ttbar+X production and decay, a sample of 0.9fb-1 of data, collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, is used to measure the asymmetry for different jet multiplicities. The result is also used to set upper limits on ttbar+X production via a Z' resonance.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
Additional Information:
© 2008 The American Physical Society 8 pages, 4 figures (5 .eps files), submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
Subjects:
?? physics and astronomy(all) ??
ID Code:
64183
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Deposited On:
29 Apr 2013 14:03
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Yes
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