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Title: Measurement of the top quark mass in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV using the decay length technique

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the top quark mass using the decay length technique in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. This technique uses the measured flight distance of the b hadron to infer the mass of the top quark in lepton plus jets events with missing transverse energy. It relies solely on tracking and avoids the jet energy scale uncertainty that is common to all other methods used so far. We apply our novel method to a 695 pb{sup -1} data sample recorded by the CDF II detector at Fermilab and extract a measurement of m{sub t}=180.7{sub -13.4}{sup +15.5}(stat.){+-}8.6(syst.) GeV/c{sup 2}. While the uncertainty of this result is larger than that of other measurements, the dominant uncertainties in the decay length technique are uncorrelated with those in other methods. This result can help reduce the overall uncertainty when combined with other existing measurements of the top quark mass.

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  1. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
  2. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States) (and others)
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OSTI Identifier:
21020232
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Journal Article
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Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields; Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.071102; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; FERMILAB COLLIDER DETECTOR; GEV RANGE; JET MODEL; LEPTONS; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS; REST MASS; T QUARKS; TEV RANGE; TRANSVERSE ENERGY

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Abulencia, A., Budd, S., Ciobanu, C. I., Errede, D., Errede, S., Gerberich, H., Grundler, U., Junk, T. R., Kraus, J., Marino, C. P., Pitts, K., Rogers, E., Taffard, A., Veramendi, G., Zhang, X., Adelman, J., Brubaker, E., Fedorko, W. T., Furic, I., and Grosso-Pilcher, C. Measurement of the top quark mass in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV using the decay length technique. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.071102.
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Abulencia, A., Budd, S., Ciobanu, C. I., Errede, D., Errede, S., Gerberich, H., Grundler, U., Junk, T. R., Kraus, J., Marino, C. P., Pitts, K., Rogers, E., Taffard, A., Veramendi, G., Zhang, X., Adelman, J., Brubaker, E., Fedorko, W. T., Furic, I., & Grosso-Pilcher, C. Measurement of the top quark mass in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV using the decay length technique. United States. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.071102.
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Abulencia, A., Budd, S., Ciobanu, C. I., Errede, D., Errede, S., Gerberich, H., Grundler, U., Junk, T. R., Kraus, J., Marino, C. P., Pitts, K., Rogers, E., Taffard, A., Veramendi, G., Zhang, X., Adelman, J., Brubaker, E., Fedorko, W. T., Furic, I., and Grosso-Pilcher, C. Sun . "Measurement of the top quark mass in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV using the decay length technique". United States. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.071102.
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@article{osti_21020232,
title = {Measurement of the top quark mass in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV using the decay length technique},
author = {Abulencia, A. and Budd, S. and Ciobanu, C. I. and Errede, D. and Errede, S. and Gerberich, H. and Grundler, U. and Junk, T. R. and Kraus, J. and Marino, C. P. and Pitts, K. and Rogers, E. and Taffard, A. and Veramendi, G. and Zhang, X. and Adelman, J. and Brubaker, E. and Fedorko, W. T. and Furic, I. and Grosso-Pilcher, C.},
abstractNote = {We report the first measurement of the top quark mass using the decay length technique in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. This technique uses the measured flight distance of the b hadron to infer the mass of the top quark in lepton plus jets events with missing transverse energy. It relies solely on tracking and avoids the jet energy scale uncertainty that is common to all other methods used so far. We apply our novel method to a 695 pb{sup -1} data sample recorded by the CDF II detector at Fermilab and extract a measurement of m{sub t}=180.7{sub -13.4}{sup +15.5}(stat.){+-}8.6(syst.) GeV/c{sup 2}. While the uncertainty of this result is larger than that of other measurements, the dominant uncertainties in the decay length technique are uncorrelated with those in other methods. This result can help reduce the overall uncertainty when combined with other existing measurements of the top quark mass.},
doi = {10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.071102},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles Fields},
number = 7,
volume = 75,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
month = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007}
}
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DOI:  10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.071102
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