Measurement of the charge asymmetry in dileptonic decays of top quark pairs in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using the ATLAS detector

TL;DR

This paper measures the charge asymmetry in dileptonic top quark pair decays at 7 TeV using ATLAS data, finding results consistent with Standard Model predictions.

Contribution

First measurement of top-antitop charge asymmetry in dileptonic decays at 7 TeV with detailed analysis of two observables.

Findings

Measured asymmetries are consistent with Standard Model.

Quantified statistical and systematic uncertainties.

Provided new data for top quark charge asymmetry studies.

Abstract

A measurement of the top-antitop ($t\bar{t}$) charge asymmetry is presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb$^{-1}$ of LHC $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector. Events with two charged leptons, at least two jets and large missing transverse momentum are selected. Two observables are studied: $A^{\ell\ell}_{\textrm{C}}$ based on the identified charged leptons, and $A^{t\bar{t}}_{\textrm{C}}$, based on the reconstructed $t\bar{t}$ final state. The asymmetries are measured to be \begin{eqnarray*} A^{\ell\ell}_{\textrm{C}} & = & 0.024 \pm 0.015 ~\textrm{(stat.)} \pm 0.009 ~\textrm{(syst.)}, \end{eqnarray*} \begin{eqnarray*} A^{t\bar{t}}_{\textrm{C}} & = & 0.021 \pm 0.025 ~\textrm{(stat.)} \pm 0.017 ~\textrm{(syst.)}. \end{eqnarray*} The measured values are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions.