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Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton+jets channel at CDF II
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Author
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Institution/Organisation
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CDF Collaboration
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Abstract
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| This article presents a measurement of the top quark mass using the CDF II detector at Fermilab. Colliding beams of protons and antiprotons at Fermilabs Tevatron (√s=1.96 TeV) produce top/antitop pairs, which decay to W+W-bb̅ ; events are selected where one W decays to hadrons and the other W decays to either e or μ plus a neutrino. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 318 pb-1. A total of 165 tt̅ 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 χ2 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/c2. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Physical review : D : particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology / American Physical Society. - Ridge, N.Y., 2004 - 2015
Physical review : D : particles and fields. - Lancaster, Pa, 1970 - 2003
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Publication
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Ridge, N.Y.
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American Physical Society
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2006
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ISSN
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1550-7998
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1550-2368
[online]
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Volume/pages
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73
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(2006)
, p. 0032003,1-032003,35
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ISI
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000235669500005
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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