First simultaneous measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels at CDF
- Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki (Finland)
- Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.9 fb{sup -1} of pp collisions collected at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV with the CDF II detector at Fermilab's Tevatron. This is the first measurement of the top quark mass using top-antitop pair candidate events in the lepton+jets and dilepton decay channels simultaneously. We reconstruct two observables in each channel and use a nonparametric kernel density estimation technique to derive two-dimensional probability density functions from simulated signal and background samples. The observables are the top quark mass and the invariant mass of two jets from the W decay in the lepton+jets channel, and the top quark mass and the scalar sum of transverse energy of the event in the dilepton channel. We perform a simultaneous fit for the top quark mass and the jet energy scale, which is constrained in situ by the hadronic W boson mass. Using 332 lepton+jets candidate events and 144 dilepton candidate events, we measure the top quark mass to be M{sub top}=171.9{+-}1.7(stat+JES){+-}1.1(other syst) GeV/c{sup 2}=171.9{+-}2.0 GeV/c{sup 2}.
- OSTI ID:
- 21308394
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 79, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.092005; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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