Abstract

Same- and opposite-sign charge asymmetries are measured in lepton+jets toverline{t} events in which a b-hadron decays semileptonically to a soft muon, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt{s}=8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The charge asymmetries are based on the charge of the lepton from the top-quark decay and the charge of the soft muon from the semileptonic decay of a b-hadron and are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the experimental acceptance. Four CP asymmetries (one mixing and three direct) are measured and are found to be compatible with zero and consistent with the Standard Model.

Highlights

  • Background uncertaintiesThe data-driven fake-lepton estimate is evaluated using alternative parameterisations of the matrix method, and the uncertainties detailed in ref. [78] are propagated to the results

  • Same- and opposite-sign charge asymmetries are measured in lepton+jets ttevents in which a b-hadron decays semileptonically to a soft muon, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass

  • The charge asymmetries are based on the charge of the lepton from the top-quark decay and the charge of the soft muon from the semileptonic decay of a b-hadron and are measured in a fiducial region corresponding to the experimental acceptance

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Summary

The ATLAS detector

The ATLAS [23] detector at the LHC [18] covers the pseudorapidity range |η| < 4.9 and the full azimuthal angle φ. It consists of the following main subsystems: an inner tracking system immersed in a 2 T magnetic field provided by a superconducting solenoid, electromagnetic (EM) and hadronic calorimeters, and a muon spectrometer incorporating three large superconducting toroid magnets composed of eight coils each. A three-level trigger system [24] is used to select interesting events It consists of a level-1 hardware trigger, reducing the event rate to at most 75 kHz, followed by two software-based trigger levels, collectively referred to as the high-level trigger, yielding a recorded event rate of approximately 400 Hz on average, depending on the data-taking conditions

Object and event selection
Reconstruction-level objects and event selection
Particle-level objects and simulated event selection
Signal and background modelling
Backgrounds with fake or non-prompt leptons
Systematic uncertainties
Experimental uncertainties
Event yields and ttcross-section
Measurement of charge asymmetries
Interpretation of the charge asymmetries
Background normalisation
Findings
Conclusions
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