Publication
Title
Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton+jets channel at CDF II
Author
Institution/Organisation
CDF Collaboration
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 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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
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
Publication
Ridge, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2006
ISSN
1550-7998 [print]
1550-2368 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVD.73.032003
Volume/pages
73 :3 (2006) , p. 0032003,1-032003,35
ISI
000235669500005
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