Autores
Luna García Rene
Título Measurement of leptonic asymmetries and top-quark polarization in tt̄ production
Tipo Revista
Sub-tipo JCR
Descripción Physical Review D
Resumen We present measurements of lepton (ℓ) angular distributions in top-quark (t) pair production and tt̄→W+bW -b̄→ℓ+νbℓ -ν̄b̄ decays produced in pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s=1.96 TeV, where ℓ is an electron or muon. Using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb-1, collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, we measure for the first time the leptonic forward-backward asymmetry in dilepton final states and obtain AFBℓ=(5.8±5.1(stat)±1.3(syst))%, corrected for detector acceptance. This is compared to the standard model prediction of AFBℓ(predicted)=(4.7±0.1)%. A deviation from the standard model prediction as previously seen in a D0 measurement based on the analysis of the ℓ+jets final state is not observed in these dilepton final states. The two results differ from each other by 1.4 standard deviations and are combined to obtain AFBℓ=(11.8±3.2)%. Furthermore, we present a first study of the top-quark polarization.
Observaciones DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.011103
Lugar
País Estados Unidos
No. de páginas Article number 011103
Vol. / Cap. Vol. 87, Issue 1
Inicio 2013-01-24
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