Measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel using m[subscript T2] at CDF
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Author(s)
Choudalakis, Georgios
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Hahn, Kristian Allan
Henderson, C.
Knuteson, Bruce O.
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Xie, Si
Bauer, Gerry P
Goncharov, Maxim
Makhoul, Khaldoun
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Measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel using mT2 at CDF
Date Issued
February 2010
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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CDF Collaboration et al. “Measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel using mT2 at CDF.” Physical Review D 81.3 (2010): 031102. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present measurements of the top quark mass using m[subscript T2], a variable related to the transverse mass in events with two missing particles. We use the template method applied to tt̅ dilepton events produced in pp̅ collisions at Fermilab’s Tevatron Collider and collected by the CDF detector. From a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.4 fb[superscript -1], we select 236 tt̅ candidate events. Using the m[subscript T2] distribution, we measure the top quark mass to be M[subscript top]=168.0[subscript -4.0][superscript +4.8](stat)±2.9(syst) GeV/c[superscript 2]. By combining m[subscript T2] with the reconstructed top quark mass distributions based on a neutrino weighting method, we measure M[subscript top]=169.3±2.7(stat)±3.2(syst) GeV/c[superscript 2]. This is the first application of the m[subscript T2] variable in a mass measurement at a hadron collider.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.031102
