Direct Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0

dc.creatorD0 Collaboration
dc.creatorAbbott, B.
dc.date1998-01-27
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dc.descriptionWe determine the top quark mass m_t using t-tbar pairs produced in the D0 detector by \sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV p-pbar collisions in a 125 pb^-1 exposure at the Fermilab Tevatron. We make a two constraint fit to m_t in t-tbar -> b W^+bbar W^- final states with one W boson decaying to q-qbar and the other to e-nu or mu-nu. Likelihood fits to the data yield m_t(l+jets) = 173.3 +- 5.6 (stat) +- 5.5 (syst) GeV/c^2. When this result is combined with an analysis of events in which both W bosons decay into leptons, we obtain m_t = 172.1 +- 5.2 (stat) +- 4.9 (syst) GeV/c^2. An alternate analysis, using three constraint fits to fixed top quark masses, gives m_t(l+jets) = 176.0 +- 7.9 (stat) +- 4.8 (syst) GeV/C^2, consistent with the above result. Studies of kinematic distributions of the top quark candidates are also presented.
dc.description43 pages, 53 figures, 33 tables. RevTeX. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9801025
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9801025
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D58:052001,1998
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.58.052001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207393
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleDirect Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0
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