Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2014) Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 728. pp. 363-379. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks is presented. In a 4.7 fb(-1) data sample of proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, events consistent with t (t) over bar production and decay into a single charged lepton final state are reconstructed. For each event, the mass difference between the top and anti-top quark candidate is calculated. A two b-tag requirement is used in order to reduce the background contribution. A maximum likelihood fit to these per-event mass differences yields Delta m = m(t) - m((t) over bar) = 0.67 +/- 0.61 (stat) +/- 0.41 (syst) GeV, consistent with CPT invariance.

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Journal Article
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Physics Letters B
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/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3106
Subjects:
?? parton distributionslhcnuclear and high energy physics ??
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68947
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21 Mar 2014 00:02
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