This article presents a measurement of the top quark mass using the CDF II detector at Fermilab. Colliding beams of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab's Tevatron (root s=1.96 TeV) produce top/antitop pairs, which decay to W(+)W(-)b (b) over bar; events are selected where one W decays to hadrons and the other W decays to either e or mu plus a neutrino. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 318 pb(-1). A total of 165 u (u) over bar events are separated into four subsamples based on jet transverse energy thresholds and the number of b jets identified by reconstructing a displaced vertex. In each event, the reconstructed top quark invariant mass is determined by minimizing a chi(2) for the overconstrained kinematic system. At the same time, the mass of the hadronically decaying W boson is measured in the same event sample. The observed W boson mass provides an in situ improvement in the determination of the hadronic jet energy scale. A simultaneous likelihood fit of the reconstructed top quark masses and the W boson invariant masses in the data sample to distributions from simulated signal and background events gives a top quark mass of 173.5(-3.8)(+3.9) GeV/c(2).

A., A., D., A., J., A., T., A., T., A., M. G., A., et al. (2006). Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton plus jets channel at CDF II. PHYSICAL REVIEW. D. PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY, 73(3) [10.1103/PhysRevD.73.032003].

Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton plus jets channel at CDF II

PAOLETTI, RICCARDO;
2006-01-01

Abstract

This article presents a measurement of the top quark mass using the CDF II detector at Fermilab. Colliding beams of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab's Tevatron (root s=1.96 TeV) produce top/antitop pairs, which decay to W(+)W(-)b (b) over bar; events are selected where one W decays to hadrons and the other W decays to either e or mu plus a neutrino. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 318 pb(-1). A total of 165 u (u) over bar events are separated into four subsamples based on jet transverse energy thresholds and the number of b jets identified by reconstructing a displaced vertex. In each event, the reconstructed top quark invariant mass is determined by minimizing a chi(2) for the overconstrained kinematic system. At the same time, the mass of the hadronically decaying W boson is measured in the same event sample. The observed W boson mass provides an in situ improvement in the determination of the hadronic jet energy scale. A simultaneous likelihood fit of the reconstructed top quark masses and the W boson invariant masses in the data sample to distributions from simulated signal and background events gives a top quark mass of 173.5(-3.8)(+3.9) GeV/c(2).
2006
A., A., D., A., J., A., T., A., T., A., M. G., A., et al. (2006). Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton plus jets channel at CDF II. PHYSICAL REVIEW. D. PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY, 73(3) [10.1103/PhysRevD.73.032003].
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