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Title: Measurement of Top Quark Mass from Dilepton Events using Invariant Mass of Lepton and $$b$$-jet in $$p\bar{p}$$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=1.8$$ TeV

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1374859· OSTI ID:1374859
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  1. National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) has collected 109 inverse picobarn of proton antiproton collision data from the 1992-1996 Tevatron run (Run 1), at a center of mass energy of $$sqrt{s} = 1.8$$ TeV. From the data we observed 10 $$p\bar{p}\to$$ dilepton + dijet + missing transverse energy candidate top quark events with an expectation of 2.0±0.42 events from backgrounds. From this sample of dilepton events, with a simple relation between top quark mass and mean invariant mass between lepton and $$b$$-jet and an algorithm to pair leptons with jets, we have measured the mass of top quark to be $$162 \pm 21 ({\rm stat.})^{+6.8}_{-7.3} ({\rm syst.})$$ GeV /$c^2$, in agreement with results from lepton+jets channel 175.6 ± 5.6 GeV/$c^2$. The possible improvements in the future are also discussed.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1374859
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS-1996-38; 435659
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English