Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel at the Tevatron
Abstract
This study presents a measurement of the top quark mass in the all hadronic channel of the top quark pair production mechanism, using 1 fb -1 of p$$\bar{p}$$ collisions at √s =1.96 TeV collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). Few novel techniques have been used in this measurement. A template technique was used to simultaneously determine the mass of the top quark and the energy scale of the jets. Two sets of distributions have been parameterized as a function of the top quark mass and jet energy scale. One set of distributions is built from the event-by-event reconstructed top masses, determined using the Standard Model matrix element for the t$$\bar{t}$$ all hadronic process. This set is sensitive to changes in the value of the top quark mass. The other set of distributions is sensitive to changes in the scale of jet energies and is built from the invariant mass of pairs of light flavor jets, providing an in situ calibration of the jet energy scale. The energy scale of the measured jets in the final state is expressed in units of its uncertainty, sigmac. The measured mass of the top quark is 171.1±3.7(stat.unc.)±2.1(syst.unc.) GeV/ c 2 and to the date represents the most precise mass measurement in the all hadronic channel and third best overall.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1352019
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-2007-102
1515457
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Lungu, Gheorghe. Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel at the Tevatron. United States: N. p., 2007.
Web. doi:10.2172/1352019.
Lungu, Gheorghe. Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel at the Tevatron. United States. doi:10.2172/1352019.
Lungu, Gheorghe. Mon .
"Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel at the Tevatron". United States.
doi:10.2172/1352019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352019.
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title = {Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the All Hadronic Channel at the Tevatron},
author = {Lungu, Gheorghe},
abstractNote = {This study presents a measurement of the top quark mass in the all hadronic channel of the top quark pair production mechanism, using 1 fb-1 of p$\bar{p}$ collisions at √s =1.96 TeV collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). Few novel techniques have been used in this measurement. A template technique was used to simultaneously determine the mass of the top quark and the energy scale of the jets. Two sets of distributions have been parameterized as a function of the top quark mass and jet energy scale. One set of distributions is built from the event-by-event reconstructed top masses, determined using the Standard Model matrix element for the t$\bar{t}$ all hadronic process. This set is sensitive to changes in the value of the top quark mass. The other set of distributions is sensitive to changes in the scale of jet energies and is built from the invariant mass of pairs of light flavor jets, providing an in situ calibration of the jet energy scale. The energy scale of the measured jets in the final state is expressed in units of its uncertainty, sigmac. The measured mass of the top quark is 171.1±3.7(stat.unc.)±2.1(syst.unc.) GeV/c 2 and to the date represents the most precise mass measurement in the all hadronic channel and third best overall.},
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year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2007},
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