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On determination of the top quark mass at hadron colliders

Abstract

A study has been made on a possibility to determine the top quark mass at hadron colliders by measuring the jets from its hadronic decay in a calorimeter. For this purpose 5000 events of the channel pp-bar {yields} tt-bar+X {yields} (W{sup +}b)(W{sup -}b-bar)+X {yields} (qq-barb)(l{sup -}{nu}-barb-bar)+X (and charge conjugated to it) at {radical}s=6 TeV has been produced with the ISAJET Monte Carlo program. Some features of top quark production and decay have been analyzed. The factors affecting the multijet invariant mass resolution have been analyzed in detail. It has been found that the bremsstrahlung that comes off the final state partons and background of overlapping gluon jets significantly reduces the precision of jet spectroscopy. A special algorithm of hard jet finding, optimized for top quark searching and measuring its mass in three jet invariant mass distributions, has been developed. As a result it has been shown that the systematic error of the m{sub t} measurement at hadron colliders can not be less than 3 GeV. 16 refs.; 17 figs.; 8 tabs.
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1991
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
IHEP-OEF-91-11
Reference Number:
SCA: 662440; PA: AIX-23:037784; SN: 92000726573
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1991
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS; QUARKS; HADRONIC PARTICLE DECAY; MASS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; ALGORITHMS; ENERGY SPECTRA; GLUONS; JETS; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL DATA; 662440; PROPERTIES OF OTHER PARTICLES INCLUDING HYPOTHETICAL PARTICLES
OSTI ID:
10140062
Research Organizations:
Gosudarstvennyj Komitet po Ispol`zovaniyu Atomnoj Ehnergii SSSR, Serpukhov (Russian Federation). Inst. Fiziki Vysokikh Ehnergij
Country of Origin:
USSR
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92627320; TRN: SU9202451037784
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
43 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 05, 2005

Citation Formats

Kiryunin, A E, and Moiseev, A M. On determination of the top quark mass at hadron colliders. USSR: N. p., 1991. Web.
Kiryunin, A E, & Moiseev, A M. On determination of the top quark mass at hadron colliders. USSR.
Kiryunin, A E, and Moiseev, A M. 1991. "On determination of the top quark mass at hadron colliders." USSR.
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title = {On determination of the top quark mass at hadron colliders}
author = {Kiryunin, A E, and Moiseev, A M}
abstractNote = {A study has been made on a possibility to determine the top quark mass at hadron colliders by measuring the jets from its hadronic decay in a calorimeter. For this purpose 5000 events of the channel pp-bar {yields} tt-bar+X {yields} (W{sup +}b)(W{sup -}b-bar)+X {yields} (qq-barb)(l{sup -}{nu}-barb-bar)+X (and charge conjugated to it) at {radical}s=6 TeV has been produced with the ISAJET Monte Carlo program. Some features of top quark production and decay have been analyzed. The factors affecting the multijet invariant mass resolution have been analyzed in detail. It has been found that the bremsstrahlung that comes off the final state partons and background of overlapping gluon jets significantly reduces the precision of jet spectroscopy. A special algorithm of hard jet finding, optimized for top quark searching and measuring its mass in three jet invariant mass distributions, has been developed. As a result it has been shown that the systematic error of the m{sub t} measurement at hadron colliders can not be less than 3 GeV. 16 refs.; 17 figs.; 8 tabs.}
place = {USSR}
year = {1991}
month = {Dec}
}