Measurement of the top quark charge in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A measurement of the top quark electric charge is carried out in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using 2.05 fb−1 of data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV. In units of the elementary electric charge, the top quark charge is determined to be 0.64 ± 0.02 (stat.) ± 0.08 (syst.) from...

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Autores: Dova, María Teresa, Anduaga, Xabier Sebastián, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Tripiana, Martín F., The ATLAS Collaboration
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/78776
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/78776
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Exactas
Física
hadron-hadron scattering
top physics
top quark
proton-proton collisions
ATLAS detector
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Sumario:A measurement of the top quark electric charge is carried out in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider using 2.05 fb−1 of data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV. In units of the elementary electric charge, the top quark charge is determined to be 0.64 ± 0.02 (stat.) ± 0.08 (syst.) from the charges of the top quark decay products in single lepton t¯t candidate events. This excludes models that propose a heavy quark of electric charge –4/3, instead of the Standard Model top quark, with a significance of more than 8σ.