Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2013) Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 728. pp. 363-379. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks is presented. In a 4.7 fb−14.7 fb−¹ data sample of proton–proton collisions at √s=7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, events consistent with tt¯ production and decay into a single charged lepton final state are reconstructed. For each event, the mass difference between the top and anti-top quark candidate is calculated. A two b-tag requirement is used in order to reduce the background contribution. A maximum likelihood fit to these per-event mass differences yields Δm≡mt−mt¯=0.67±0.61(stat)±0.41(syst) GeV, consistent with CPT invariance.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	08 May 2017 12:17
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2019 19:34
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67733

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