Combination of inclusive and differential tt¯ charge asymmetry measurements using ATLAS and CMS data at √s = 7 and 8 TeV

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This paper presents combinations of inclusive and differential measurements of the charge asymmetry ((A_C)) in top quark pair (\left(t\overline{t}\right)) events with a lepton+jets signature by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, using data from LHC proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of about 5 and 20 fb⁻¹ for each experiment, respectively. The resulting combined LHC measurements of the inclusive charge asymmetry are (A_C^{LHC7}) = 0.005 ± 0.007 (stat) ± 0.006(syst) at 7 TeV and (A_C^{LHC8}) = 0.0055 ± 0.0023 (stat) ± 0.0025 (syst) at 8 TeV. These values, as well as the combination of ((A_C)) measurements as a function of the invariant mass of the (t\overline{t}) system at 8 TeV, are consistent with the respective standard model predictions.

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Top physics
Citation
Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, N. L., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., … Affolder, A. A. (2018). Combination of inclusive and differential $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ charge asymmetry measurements using ATLAS and CMS data at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ and 8 TeV. In Journal of High Energy Physics (Vol. 2018, Issue 4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2018)033