Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production
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Issue Date
2008-04-09Author
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Hensel, Carsten
Moulik, Tania
Abazov, V. M.
Abbott, B.
Abolins, M.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, M.
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We present the first measurement of the integrated forward-backward charge asymmetry in top-quark–top-antiquark pair (tt-bar) production in proton-antiproton (pp-bar) collisions in the lepton+jets final state. Using a b-jet tagging algorithm and kinematic reconstruction assuming tt-bar+X production and decay, a sample of 0.9 fb(−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 tt-bar+X production via a Z′ resonance.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.142002.
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0031-9007Collections
Citation
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2008). "Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production." Physical Review Letters, 100(14):142002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.142002
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