Measurements of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the dilepton final state at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

Measurements of the top-antitop quark pair production charge asymmetry in the dilepton channel, characterized by two high-p_T leptons (electrons or muons), are presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb^-1 from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy √s = 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Inclusive and differential measurements as a function of the invariant mass, transverse momentum, and longitudinal boost of the tt system are performed both in the full phase space and in a fiducial phase space closely matching the detector acceptance. Two observables are studied: A^ℓℓ_C based on the selected leptons and ACtt based on the reconstructed tt final state. The inclusive asymmetries are measured in the full phase space to be A^ℓℓ_C=0.008±0.006 and A^tt_C=0.021±0.016, which are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions of A^ℓℓ_C=0.0064±0.0003 and A^tt_C=0.0111±0.0004.