Measurement of the top quark charge in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2013) Measurement of the top quark charge in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 (31). ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

A measurement of the top quark electric charge is carried out in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using 2.05 fb−1 of data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. In units of the elementary electric charge, the top quark charge is determined to be 0.64 ± 0.02 (stat.) ± 0.08 (syst.) from the charges of the top quark decay products in single lepton tt¯ candidate events. This excludes models that propose a heavy quark of electric charge −4/3, instead of the Standard Model top quark, with a significance of more than 8σ.

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Journal of High Energy Physics
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?? hadron-hadron scattering top physicsnuclear and high energy physics ??
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67895
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09 Dec 2013 12:13
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