DPF 2011

8-13 August 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry in top quark production in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

11 Aug 2011, 10:30
20m
553 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

553

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Top Quark Physics

Speaker

Douglas Orbaker (University of Rochester)

Description

We present measurements of the integrated forward-backward charge asymmetry in $t\bar{t}$ production in $p\bar{p}$ collisions using data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, using both the lepton+jets and dilepton final states. We present the raw measurement as well as results obtained after correcting for acceptance and detector effects and present also measurements as a function of invariant mass of the $t\bar{t}$ pair. We also investigate the dependence ofthe asymmetry on the total transverse momentum of the $t\bar{t}$ pair.

Primary author

Douglas Orbaker (University of Rochester)

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