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. 2020 May 6;80(5):370. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7858-1

Table 2.

The measured spin asymmetry in the muon and electron channel and their combination. A breakdown of the systematic uncertainties is also provided. Minor systematic uncertainties (lepton efficiencies, pileup, and unclustered energy) have been grouped into the “Others” category

Central values Aμ Ae Aμ+e
0.403 0.446 0.440
Profiled uncertainties Statistical ±0.029 ±0.038 ±0.024
tt¯/tW normalisation ±0.010 ±0.007 ±0.007
W/Z/γ+jets normalisation ±0.012 ±0.011 ±0.012
Multijet normalisation <0.001 <0.001 ±0.003
Multijet shape <0.001 ±0.006 <0.001
Jet energy scale/resolution ±0.008 <0.001 <0.001
b tagging efficiencies/misidentification <0.001 ±0.009 ±0.004
Others <0.001 ±0.003 ±0.005
Theoretical uncertainties Top quark mass ±0.033 ±0.063 ±0.044
PDF+αS ±0.011 ±0.009 ±0.011
t channel renorm./fact. scales ±0.013 ±0.018 ±0.020
t channel parton shower ±0.030 ±0.008 ±0.014
tt¯ renorm./fact. scales ±0.008 ±0.019 ±0.017
tt¯ parton shower ±0.031 ±0.037 ±0.033
tt¯ underlying event tune <0.001 ±0.014 ±0.014
tt¯ pT reweighting <0.001 ±0.010 ±0.009
W+jets renorm./fact. scales <0.001 ±0.019 ±0.014
Color reconnection ±0.036 ±0.056 ±0.031
Fragmentation model ±0.011 ±0.011 ±0.011
Profiled uncertainties only (statistical+experimental) ±0.041 ±0.047 ±0.031
Total uncertainties ±0.071 ±0.099 ±0.070