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Top-mass measurements from D0

  • 1. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  • 2. Rochester Univ., Rochester, NY (United States)

Description

We present three recent analyses (Abstracts 169, 170 and 174) of the mass of the top quark (Mt) using top-antitop candidate events collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider: (i) a 3.6 events/fb sample of data in the lepton+jets channel analyzed to extract a precision value of Mt using the 'Matrix-Element' (ME) method, wherein each event probability is calculated from the differential production cross section as a function of Mt and the overall jet energy scale, with the latter constrained by the two jets from W decay into q(prime)(bar q), (ii) a first measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks as a check of CPT invariance in the quark sector, also based on the ME method in lepton+jets channels, and corresponding to a 1 event/fb data sample, and (iii) measurements of Mt in dilepton final states (updated to 3.6 events/fb), based on 'matrix' weighting, 'neutrino' weighting and the ME method, which rely, respectively, on the likelihood of observing the events in data for a range of assumed Mt values, distributions generated from event weights that compare calculated and reconstructed missing transverse energies, and event probabilities based on the leading-order differential cross section as a function of assumed Mt. In addition, we provide a combination of recent top-mass measurements from D0.

Availability note (English)

Available from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL (US)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
5 p.
Report number
FERMILAB-CONF--09-734-E

Conference

Title
Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics
Acronym
EPS-HEP 2009
Dates
16-22 Jul 2009
Place
Cracow (Poland)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
41118111
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; CROSS SECTIONS; DECAY; DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS; FERMILAB TEVATRON; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MASS DIFFERENCE; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION; QUARKS; T QUARKS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; CROSS SECTIONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARKS; SYNCHROTRONS; TOP PARTICLES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-76CH03000
Notes
PoS EPS-HEP2009:364,2009
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)