Measurement of the top quark mass with the dynamical likelihood method using lepton plus jets events with b-tags in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV

Journal Article · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.73.092002· OSTI ID:20782964

Abulencia, A; Budd, S; Chu, P H; Ciobanu, C I; Errede, D; Errede, S; Gerberich, H; Grundler, U; Junk, T R; Kraus, J; Liss, T M; Marino, C; Pitts, K; Rogers, E; Taffard, A; Veramendi, G; Vickey, T; Zhang, X ^[1]; Acosta, D; Cruz, A ^[2]

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1. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)

This paper describes a measurement of the top quark mass, M{sub top}, with the dynamical likelihood method (DLM) using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The Tevatron produces top/antitop (tt) pairs in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data sample used in this analysis was accumulated from March 2002 through August 2004, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 318 pb{sup -1}. We use the tt candidates in the 'lepton+jets' decay channel, requiring at least one jet identified as a b quark by finding a displaced secondary vertex. The DLM defines a likelihood for each event based on the differential cross section as a function of M{sub top} per unit phase space volume of the final partons, multiplied by the transfer functions from jet to parton energies. The method takes into account all possible jet combinations in an event, and the likelihood is multiplied event by event to derive the top quark mass by the maximum likelihood method. Using 63 tt candidates observed in the data, with 9.2 events expected from background, we measure the top quark mass to be 173.2(+2.6/-2.4)(stat.){+-}3.2(syst.) GeV/c{sup 2}, or 173.2(+4.1/-4.0) GeV/c{sup 2}.

• OSTI ID: 20782964
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 73; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
B QUARKS
DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS
FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR
FERMILAB TEVATRON
GEV RANGE
INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS
JET MODEL
LEPTONS
MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD FIT
PARTICLE DECAY
PHASE SPACE
PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
REST MASS
T QUARKS
TEV RANGE
TRANSFER FUNCTIONS