Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron

T Aaltonen1, V M Abazov2, B Abbott3

  • 1Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.

Physical Review Letters
|February 14, 2018
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