Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production in p(p)over-bar collisions using the lepton plus jets channel

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作者
Abazov, V. M. [33 ]
Abbott, B. [70 ]
Acharya, B. S. [27 ]
Adams, M. [49 ]
Adams, T. [47 ]
Agnew, J. P. [44 ]
Alexeev, G. D. [33 ]
Alkhazov, G. [37 ]
Alton, A. [29 ,59 ]
Askew, A. [47 ]
Atkins, S. [57 ]
Augsten, K. [7 ]
Avila, C. [5 ]
Badaud, F. [10 ]
Bagby, L. [48 ]
Baldin, B. [48 ]
Bandurin, D. V. [76 ]
Banerjee, S. [27 ]
Barberis, E. [58 ]
Baringer, P. [56 ]
Bartlett, J. F. [48 ]
Bassler, U. [16 ]
Bazterra, V. [49 ]
Bean, A. [56 ]
Begalli, M. [2 ]
Bellantoni, L. [48 ]
Beri, S. B. [25 ]
Bernardi, G. [14 ,15 ]
Bernhard, R. [21 ]
Bertram, I. [42 ]
Besancon, M. [16 ]
Beuselinck, R. [43 ]
Bhat, P. C. [48 ]
Bhatia, S. [61 ]
Bhatnagar, V. [25 ]
Blazey, G. [50 ]
Blessing, S. [47 ]
Bloom, K. [62 ]
Boehnlein, A. [48 ]
Boline, D. [67 ]
Boos, E. E. [35 ]
Borissov, G. [42 ]
Borysova, M. [41 ]
Brandt, A. [73 ]
Brandt, O. [22 ]
Brock, R. [60 ]
Bross, A. [48 ]
Brown, D. [14 ,15 ]
Bu, X. B. [48 ]
Buehler, M. [48 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[2] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, BR-20550011 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Univ Fed ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
[4] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[6] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[7] Czech Tech Univ, CR-16635 Prague, Czech Republic
[8] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[9] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[10] Univ Blaise Pascal, CNRS, IN2P3, LPC, Clermont, France
[11] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, IN2P3, LPSC,Inst Natl Polytech Grenoble, Grenoble, France
[12] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[13] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL, F-91405 Orsay, France
[14] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, Paris, France
[15] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, IN2P3, Paris, France
[16] CEA Saclay, Irfu, SPP, Saclay, France
[17] Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, IN2P3, IPHC, Strasbourg, France
[18] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, IPNL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[19] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[20] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A 3, Aachen, Germany
[21] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany
[22] Univ Gottingen, Inst Phys 2, Gottingen, Germany
[23] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, Mainz, Germany
[24] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[25] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[26] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[27] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[28] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
[29] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[30] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[31] Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[32] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[33] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[34] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[35] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[36] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[37] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[38] Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, Barcelona, Spain
[39] Inst Fis Altes Energies, Barcelona, Spain
[40] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[41] Taras Shevchenko Natl Univ Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine
[42] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YB, England
[43] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2AZ, England
[44] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[45] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[46] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[47] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[48] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[49] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[50] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2014年 / 90卷 / 07期
基金
俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 爱尔兰科学基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
CHARGE ASYMMETRY; RUN-II; IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072011
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production using the full Tevatron Run II data set collected by the D0 experiment at Fermilab. The measurement is performed in lepton + jets final states using a new kinematic fitting algorithm for events with four or more jets and a new partial reconstruction algorithm for events with only three jets. Corrected for detector acceptance and resolution effects, the asymmetry is evaluated to be A(FB) = (10.6 +/- 3.0)%. Results are consistent with the standard model predictions which range from 5.0% to 8.8%. We also present the dependence of the asymmetry on the invariant mass of the top quark-antiquark system and the difference in rapidities of the top quark and antiquark.
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