Measurement of the top quark charge in pp collisions at root 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 the charges of the top quark decay products in single lepton t (t) over bar 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 sigma.

Keywords:

Hadron-Hadron Scattering / Top physics

Source:
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013, 11

Projects:

ANPCyT, Argentina, YerPhI, Armenia, ARC, Australia, BMWF and FWF, Austria, ANAS, Azerbaijan, SSTC, Belarus, CNPq, Brazil, FAPESP, Brazil, NSERC, Canada, NRC, Canada, CFI, Canada, CERN, CONICYT, Chile, CAS, China, MOST, China, NSFC, China, COLCIENCIAS, Colombia, MSMT CR, Czech Republic, MPO CR, Czech Republic, VSC CR, Czech Republic, DNRF, Denmark, DNSRC, Denmark, Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark, EPLANET, European Union, ERC, European Union, NSRF, European Union, IN2P3-CNRS, France, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France, GNSF, Georgia, BMBF, Germany, DFG, Germany, HGF, Germany, MPG Foundation, Germany, ICREA