Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Highly Boosted Top-Quark Pair Production in S=8 TeV Pp Collision Data Collected by the ATLAS Experiment

Abstract

In the process the angular distributions of top and anti-top quarks are expected to present a subtle difference, which could be enhanced by processes not included in the Standard Model. This Letter presents a measurement of the charge asymmetry in events where the top-quark pair is produced with a large invariant mass. The analysis is performed on 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, using reconstruction techniques specifically designed for the decay topology of highly boosted top quarks. The charge asymmetry in a fiducial region with large invariant mass of the top-quark pair () and an absolute rapidity difference of the top and anti-top quark candidates within is measured to be , in agreement with the Standard Model prediction at next-to-leading order. A differential measurement in three mass bins is also presented.