Inclusive and differential measurements of the t[bar over t] charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

• Main Authors: Apyan, Aram (Contributor), Bauer, Gerry P. (Contributor), Bendavid, Joshua L. (Contributor), Busza, Wit (Contributor), Butz, Erik M. (Contributor), Cali, Ivan Amos (Contributor), Chan, M. (Contributor), Dutta, V. (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Hahn, Kristian Allan (Contributor), Kim, Y. (Contributor), Klute, Markus (Contributor), Krajczar, Krisztian F. (Contributor), Li, W. (Contributor), Luckey, P. David, Jr (Contributor), Ma, Teng (Contributor), Nahn, Steven (Contributor), Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Ralph, Duncan Kelley (Contributor), Roland, Christof E. (Contributor), Roland, Gunther M. (Contributor), Rudolph, Matthew Scott (Contributor), Stephans, George S. F. (Contributor), Stockli, Fabian (Contributor), Sumorok, Konstanty C. (Contributor), Sung, Kevin Kai Hong (Contributor), Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru (Contributor), Wenger, Edward Allen (Contributor), Wolf, R. (Contributor), Wyslouch, Boleslaw (Contributor), Xie, S. (Contributor), Yang, M. (Contributor), Yilmaz, Yetkin (Contributor), Yoon, A. S. (Contributor), Zanetti, Marco (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-11-26T17:18:59Z.
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 The t[bar over t] charge asymmetry is measured in events containing a charged lepton (electron or muon) and at least four jets, one of which is identified as originating from b-quark hadronization. The analyzed dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1] collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. An inclusive and three differential measurements of the t[bar over t] charge asymmetry as a function of rapidity, transverse momentum, and invariant mass of the t[bar over t] system are presented. The measured inclusive t[bar over t] charge asymmetry is A[subscript C]=0.004±0.010(stat.)±0.011(syst.). This result and the three differential measurements are consistent with zero asymmetry as well as with the predictions of the standard model.