Direct measurement of the top quark mass

Abachi, S. ; Narasimham, V. S. ; et., al (1997) Direct measurement of the top quark mass Physical Review Letters, 79 (7). pp. 1197-1202. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/i7/p1197_1

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1197

Abstract

We measure the top quark mass mt using tt̅ pairs produced in the D0 detector by √s=1.8 TeVpp̅ collisions in a 125 pb-1 exposure at the Fermilab Tevatron. We make a two constraint fit to mt in tt̅→bW+b̅W- final states with one W decaying to qq̅ and the other to eν or μν. Events are binned in fit mass versus a measure of probability for events to be signal rather than background. Likelihood fits to the data yield mt=173.3±5.6(stat)±6.2(syst) GeV/c2.

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