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

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Publication date 2008
Journal Physical Review Letters
Volume | Issue number 100 | 14
Pages (from-to) 142002
Number of pages 7
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract We present the first measurement of the integrated forward-backward charge asymmetry in top-quark-top-antiquark pair (t (t) over bar) production in proton-antiproton (p (p) over bar) collisions in the lepton+jets final state. Using a b-jet tagging algorithm and kinematic reconstruction assuming t (t) over 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 t (t) over bar +X production via a Z' resonance.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.142002
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