@article{3170368, title = "Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of top-quark and antiquark pairs using the full CDF Run II data set", author = "Aaltonen, T. and Amerio, S. and Amidei, D. and Anastassov, A. and and Annovi, A. and Antos, J. and Apollinari, G. and Appel, J. A. and and Arisawa, T. and Artikov, A. and Asaadi, J. and Ashmanskas, W. and and Auerbach, B. and Aurisano, A. and Azfar, F. and Badgett, W. and Bae, T. and and Barbaro-Galtieri, A. and Barnes, V. E. and Barnett, B. A. and and Barria, P. and Bartos, P. and Bauce, M. and Bedeschi, F. and Behari, S. and and Bellettini, G. and Bellinger, J. and Benjamin, D. and Beretvas, A. and and Bhatti, A. and Bland, K. R. and Blumenfeld, B. and Bocci, A. and and Bodek, A. and Bortoletto, D. and Boudreau, J. and Boveia, A. and and Brigliadori, L. and Bromberg, C. and Brucken, E. and Budagov, J. and and Budd, H. S. and Burkett, K. and Busetto, G. and Bussey, P. and Butti, P. and and Buzatu, A. and Calamba, A. and Camarda, S. and Campanelli, M. and and Canelli, F. and Carls, B. and Carlsmith, D. and Carosi, R. and Carrillo, and S. and Casal, B. and Casarsa, M. and Castro, A. and Catastini, P. and and Cauz, D. and Cavaliere, V. and Cerri, A. and Cerrito, L. and Chen, Y. C. and and Chertok, M. and Chiarelli, G. and Chlachidze, G. and Cho, K. and and Chokheli, D. and Clark, A. and Clarke, C. and Convery, M. E. and Conway, and J. and Corbo, M. and Cordelli, M. and Cox, C. A. and Cox, D. J. and and Cremonesi, M. and Cruz, D. and Cuevas, J. and Culbertson, R. and and d'Ascenzo, N. and Datta, M. and de Barbaro, P. and Demortier, L. and and Deninno, M. and D'Errico, M. and Devoto, F. and Di Canto, A. and Di and Ruzza, B. and Dittmann, J. R. and Donati, S. and D'Onofrio, M. and and Dorigo, M. and Driutti, A. and Ebina, K. and Edgar, R. and Erbacher, R. and and Errede, S. and Esham, B. and Farrington, S. and Fernandez Ramos, J. and P. and Field, R. and Flanagan, G. and Forrest, R. and Franklin, M. and and Freeman, J. C. and Frisch, H. and Funakoshi, Y. and Galloni, C. and and Garfinkel, A. F. and Garosi, P. and Gerberich, H. and Gerchtein, E. and and Giagu, S. and Giakoumopoulou, V. and Gibson, K. and Ginsburg, C. M. and and Giokaris, N. and Giromini, P. and Glagolev, V. and Glenzinski, D. and and Gold, M. and Goldin, D. and Golossanov, A. and Gomez, G. and and Gomez-Ceballos, G. and Goncharov, M. and Gonzalez Lopez, O. and Gorelov, and I. and Goshaw, A. T. and Goulianos, K. and Gramellini, E. and and Grosso-Pilcher, C. and da Costa, J. Guimaraes and Hahn, S. R. and Han, and J. Y. and Happacher, F. and Hara, K. and Hare, M. and Harr, R. F. and and Harrington-Taber, T. and Hatakeyama, K. and Hays, C. and Heinrich, J. and and Herndon, M. and Hocker, A. and Hong, Z. and Hopkins, W. and Hou, S. and and Hughes, R. E. and Husemann, U. and Hussein, M. and Huston, J. and and Introzzi, G. and Iori, M. and Ivanov, A. and James, E. and Jang, D. and and Jayatilaka, B. and Jeon, E. J. and Jindariani, S. and Jones, M. and Joo, and K. K. and Jun, S. Y. and Junk, T. R. and Kambeitz, M. and Kamon, T. and and Karchin, P. E. and Kasmi, A. and Kato, Y. and Ketchum, W. and Keung, J. and and Kilminster, B. and Kim, D. H. and Kim, H. S. and Kim, J. E. and Kim, and M. J. and Kim, S. H. and Kim, S. B. and Kim, Y. J. and Kim, Y. K. and and Kimura, N. and Kirby, M. and Kondo, K. and Kong, D. J. and Konigsberg, and J. and Kotwal, A. V. and Kreps, M. and Kroll, J. and Kruse, M. and Kuhr, and T. and Kurata, M. and Laasanen, A. T. and Lammel, S. and Lancaster, M. and and Lannon, K. and Latino, G. and Lee, H. S. and Lee, J. S. and Leo, S. and and Leone, S. and Lewis, J. D. and Limosani, A. and Lipeles, E. and and Lister, A. and Liu, Q. and Liu, T. and Lockwitz, S. and Loginov, A. and and Lucchesi, D. and Luca, A. and Lueck, J. and Lujan, P. and Lukens, P. and and Lungu, G. and Lys, J. and Lysak, R. and Madrak, R. and Maestro, P. and and Malik, S. and Manca, G. and Manousakis-Katsikakis, A. and Marchese, L. and and Margaroli, F. and Marino, P. and Matera, K. and Mattson, M. E. and and Mazzacane, A. and Mazzanti, P. and McNulty, R. and Mehta, A. and and Mehtala, P. and Mesropian, C. and Miao, T. and Mietlicki, D. and Mitra, and A. and Miyake, H. and Moed, S. and Moggi, N. and Moon, C. S. and Moore, and R. and Morello, M. J. and Mukherjee, A. and Muller, Th. and Murat, P. and and Mussini, M. and Nachtman, J. and Nagai, Y. and Naganoma, J. and and Nakano, I. and Napier, A. and Nett, J. and Nigmanov, T. and Nodulman, L. and and Noh, S. Y. and Norniella, O. and Oakes, L. and Oh, S. H. and Oh, Y. and D. and Okusawa, T. and Orava, R. and Ortolan, L. and Pagliarone, C. and and Palencia, E. and Palni, P. and Papadimitriou, V. and Parker, W. and and Pauletta, G. and Paulini, M. and Paus, C. and Phillips, T. J. and and Piacentino, G. and Pianori, E. and Pilot, J. and Pitts, K. and Plager, and C. and Pondrom, L. and Poprocki, S. and Potamianos, K. and Pranko, A. and and Prokoshin, F. and Ptohos, F. and Punzi, G. and Redondo Fernandez, I. and and Renton, P. and Rescigno, M. and Rimondi, F. and Ristori, L. and and Robson, A. and Rodriguez, T. and Rolli, S. and Ronzani, M. and Roser, R. and and Rosner, J. L. and Ruffini, F. and Ruiz, A. and Russ, J. and Rusu, V. and and Sakumoto, W. K. and Sakurai, Y. and Santi, L. and Sato, K. and and Saveliev, V. and Savoy-Navarro, A. and Schlabach, P. and Schmidt, E. E. and and Schwarz, T. and Scodellaro, L. and Scuri, F. and Seidel, S. and and Seiya, Y. and Semenov, A. and Sforza, F. and Shalhout, S. Z. and Shears, and T. and Shepard, P. F. and Shimojima, M. and Shochet, M. and and Shreyber-Tecker, I. and Simonenko, A. and Sliwa, K. and Smith, J. R. and and Snider, F. D. and Song, H. and Sorin, V. and St Denis, R. and Stancari, and M. and Stentz, D. and Strologas, J. and Sudo, Y. and Sukhanov, A. and and Suslov, I. and Takemasa, K. and Takeuchi, Y. and Tang, J. and Tecchio, and M. and Teng, P. K. and Thom, J. and Thomson, E. and Thukral, V. and and Toback, D. and Tokar, S. and Tollefson, K. and Tomura, T. and Tonelli, and D. and Torre, S. and Torretta, D. and Totaro, P. and Trovato, M. and and Ukegawa, F. and Uozumi, S. and Vazquez, F. and Velev, G. and Vellidis, and C. and Vernieri, C. and Vidal, M. and Vilar, R. and Vizan, J. and Vogel, and M. and Volpi, G. and Wagner, P. and Wallny, R. and Wang, S. M. and and Waters, D. and Wester, III, W. C. and Whiteson, D. and Wicklund, A. B. and and Wilbur, S. and Williams, H. H. and Wilson, J. S. and Wilson, P. and and Winer, B. L. and Wittich, P. and Wolbers, S. and Wolfe, H. and Wright, and T. and Wu, X. and Wu, Z. and Yamamoto, K. and Yamato, D. and Yang, T. and and Yang, U. K. and Yang, Y. C. and Yao, W. -M. and Yeh, G. P. and Yi, and K. and Yoh, J. and Yorita, K. and Yoshida, T. and Yu, G. B. and Yu, I. and and Zanetti, A. M. and Zeng, Y. and Zhou, C. and Zucchelli, S. and CDF and Collaboration", journal = "Physical Review D", year = "2016", volume = "93", number = "11", publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC", issn = "2470-0010, 2470-0029", doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112005", abstract = "We measure the forward-backward asymmetry of the production of top-quark and antiquark pairs in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy root s = 1.96 TeV using the full data set collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in Tevatron Run II corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.1 fb(-1). The asymmetry is characterized by the rapidity difference between top quarks and antiquarks (Delta y) and measured in the final state with two charged leptons (electrons and muons). The inclusive asymmetry, corrected to the entire phase space at parton level, is measured to be A(FB)(t (t) over bar) = 0.12 +/- 0.13, consistent with the expectations from the standard model (SM) and previous CDF results in the final state with a single charged lepton. The combination of the CDF measurements of the inclusive A(FB)(t (t) over bar) in both final states yields A(FB)(t (t) over bar) 0.160 +/- 0.045, which is consistent with the SM predictions. We also measure the differential asymmetry as a function of Delta y. A linear fit to A(FB)(t (t) over bar) (vertical bar Delta y vertical bar),assuming zero asymmetry at Delta y = 0, yields a slope of alpha = 0.14 +/- 0.15, consistent with the SM prediction and the previous CDF determination in the final state with a single charged lepton. The combined slope of A(FB)(t (t) over bar) (vertical bar Delta y vertical bar) the two final states is alpha = 0.227 +/- 0.057, which is 2.0 sigma larger than the SM prediction." }