Published October 31, 2008 | Version v1
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Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass from lepton+jets Events

Creators

  • 1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 2. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (United States)
  • 3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States)

Description

We measure the mass of the top quark using top-quark pair candidate events in the lepton+jets channel from data corresponding to 1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We use a likelihood technique that reduces the jet energy scale uncertainty by combining an in situ jet energy calibration with the independent constraint on the jet energy scale (JES) from the calibration derived using photon+jets and dijet samples. We find the mass of the top quark to be 171.5±1.8(stat.+JES)±1.1(syst.) GeV

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.182001;
arXiv
arXiv:0807.2141v3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
101
Journal Issue
18
Journal Page Range
p. 182001-182001.7
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40054065
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BEAM LUMINOSITY; CALIBRATION; FERMILAB TEVATRON; GEV RANGE 100-1000; JETS; LEPTONS; MASS; PHOTONS; T QUARKS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; GEV RANGE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARKS; SYNCHROTRONS; TOP PARTICLES

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2008 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
The DO Collaboration