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School of Particles and Accelerator
Title:   Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Author(s):
 1 Hessamadin Arfaei 2 Hamed Bakhshiansohi 3 Seyed Mohsen Etesami 4 Ali Fahim 5 Majid Hashemi 6 Hoda Hesari 7 Abideh Jafari 8 Mohsen Khakzad 9 A Mohammadi 10 Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi 11 Saeid Paktinat 12 Batool Safarzadeh 13 Maryam Zeinali
Status:   Published
Journal: Phys. Lett. B
Vol.:  709
Year:  2012
Pages:   28-49
Supported by:  IPM
Abstract:
The difference in angular distributions between top quarks and antiquarks, commonly referred to as the charge asymmetry, is measured in pp collisions at the LHC with the CMS experiment. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.09 inverse femtobarns at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Top-quark pairs are selected in the final state with an electron or muon and four or more jets. At least one jet is identified as originating from b-quark hadronization. The charge asymmetry is measured in two variables, one based on the pseudorapidities (eta) of the top quarks and the other on their rapidities (y). The results A[C,eta] = -0.017 +/- 0.032 (stat.) + [+0.025/-0.036] (syst.) and A[C,y] = -0.013 +/- 0.028 (stat.) + [+0.029/-0.031] (syst.) are consistent within uncertainties with the standard-model predictions