Abstract
We present measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry in the angular distribution of leptons from decays of top quarks and antiquarks produced in proton-antiproton collisions. We consider the final state containing a lepton and at least three jets. The entire sample of data collected by the D0 experiment during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, corresponding to of integrated luminosity, is used. The asymmetry measured for reconstructed leptons is . When corrected for efficiency and resolution effects within the lepton rapidity coverage of , the asymmetry is found to be . We examine the dependence of on the transverse momentum and rapidity of the lepton. Combination with the asymmetry measured in the final states containing two leptons yields . The results are in agreement with predictions from the next-to-leading-order QCD generator mc@nlo, which predicts an asymmetry of for .
2 More- Received 7 March 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072001
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