Measurement of the top-quark mass in all-hadronic decays in p anti-p collisions at CDF II

Collaboration
Dec, 2006
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 98 (2007) 142001
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Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-06-468-E
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Abstract:
We present a measurement of the top-quark mass, MtopM_{\mathrm{top}}, in the all-hadronic decay channel ttˉW+bWbˉq1qˉ2bq3qˉ4bˉt\bar{t} \to W^+b W^- \bar{b} \to q_1\bar{q}_2 b q_3 \bar{q}_4 \bar{b}. The analysis is performed using 310 pb1^{-1} of s\sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV ppˉp\bar{p} collisions collected with the CDF II detector using a multi-jet trigger. The mass measurement is based on an event-by-event likelihood which depends on both the sample purity and the value of the top-quark mass, using 90 possible jet-to-parton assignments in the six-jet final state. The joint likelihood of 290 selected events yields a value of MtopM_{\mathrm{top}}=177.1 ±\pm 4.9 (stat.) ±\pm 4.7 (syst.) GeV/c2c^2.
Note:
  • 7 pages, 2 figures and 1 table, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
  • 12.15.Ff
  • 14.65.Ha
  • anti-p p: colliding beams
  • anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • top: pair production
  • top: decay
  • final state: (6jet)
  • mass: top
  • data analysis method
  • jet: energy