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

Aad, G. and Abajyan, T. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Khalek, S. A. and Abdelalim, A. A. and Abdinov, O. and Aben, R. and Abi, B. and Abolins, M. and AbouZeid, O. S. and Abramowicz, H. and Abreu, H. and Abulaiti, Y. and Acharya, B. S. and Adamczyk, L. and Adams, D. L. and Addy, T. N. and Adelman, J. and Adomeit, S. and Adye, T. and Aefsky, S. and Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. and Agustoni, M. and Ahlen, S. P. and Ahles, F. and Ahmad, A. and Ahsan, M. and Aielli, G. and Akesson, T. P. A. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Nagai, Yoshikazu and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2013) Measurement of the top quark charge in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 1311 (11). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

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 7 TeV. 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 8 σ.

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