Title Measurement of the top quark mass in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV using the decay length technique Author Abulencia, A. Van Remortel, N. et al. Faculty/Department Faculty of Sciences. Physics Publication type article Publication 2007 Lancaster, Pa , 2007 Subject Physics Source (journal) Physical review : D : particles and fields. - Lancaster, Pa, 1970 - 2003 Volume/pages 75(2007) :7 , p. 071102,1-071102,9 ISSN 0556-2821 ISI 000246076700002 Carrier E Target language English (eng) Full text (Publishers DOI) Affiliation University of Antwerp Abstract We report the first measurement of the top quark mass using the decay length technique in pp̅ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. This technique uses the measured flight distance of the b hadron to infer the mass of the top quark in lepton plus jets events with missing transverse energy. It relies solely on tracking and avoids the jet energy scale uncertainty that is common to all other methods used so far. We apply our novel method to a 695  pb-1 data sample recorded by the CDF II detector at Fermilab and extract a measurement of mt=180.7-13.4+15.5(stat.)±8.6(syst.)  GeV/c2. While the uncertainty of this result is larger than that of other measurements, the dominant uncertainties in the decay length technique are uncorrelated with those in other methods. This result can help reduce the overall uncertainty when combined with other existing measurements of the top quark mass. Full text (open access) https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/00838a/361b6149.pdf E-info http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000246076700002&DestLinkType=RelatedRecords&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000246076700002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000246076700002&DestLinkType=CitingArticles&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 Handle