Top Quark Mass Measurement Using the Template Method at CDF.

Top Quark Mass Measurement Using the Template Method at CDF.
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We present a measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels of t{bar t} decays using the template method. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 fb−1 of p{bar p} collisions at Tevatron with √s = 1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector. The measurement is performed by constructing templates of three kinematic variables in the lepton+jets and two kinematic variables in the dilepton channel. The variables are two reconstructed top quark masses from different jets-to-quarks combinations and the invariant mass of two jets from the W decay in the lepton+jets channel, and a reconstructed top quark mass and m{sub T2}, a variable related to the transverse mass in events with two missing particles, in the dilepton channel. The simultaneous fit of the templates from signal and background events in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels to the data yields a measured top quark mass of M{sub top} = 172.1 ± 1.1 (stat) ± 0.9 (syst) GeV/c2.

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass Using the Template Method in the Lepton Plus Jets Channel with in Situ W ---] J J Calibration at CDF-II.

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass Using the Template Method in the Lepton Plus Jets Channel with in Situ W ---] J J Calibration at CDF-II.
Author: T. Maruyama
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Release: 2006
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We report an updated measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton plus jets channel of t{bar t} events from p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV. This measurement uses a dataset with integrated luminosity of 680 pb{sup -1}, containing 360 t{bar t} candidates separated into four subsamples. A top quark mass is reconstructed for each event by using energy and momentum constraints on the top quark pair decay products. We also employ the reconstructed mass of hadronic W boson decays W {yields} jj to constrain in situ the largest systematic uncertainty of the top quark mass measurement: the jet energy scale. Monte Carlo templates of the reconstructed top quark and W boson mass are produced as a function of the true top quark mass and the jet energy scale. The distribution of reconstructed top quark and W boson mass in the data are compared to the Monte Carlo templates using a likelihood fit to obtain: M{sub top} = 173.4 {+-} 2.8 GeV/c{sup 2}.

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF Using the Template Method in the Lepton + Jets Channel

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF Using the Template Method in the Lepton + Jets Channel
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Release: 2008
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A measurement of the top quark mass in p{bar p} collisions at (square root)s = 1.96 TeV is presented. The analysis uses a template method, in which the overconstrained kinematics of the Lepton+Jets channel of the t{bar t} system are used to measure a single quantity, the reconstructed top quark mass, that is strongly correlated with the true top quark mass. in addition, the dijet mass of the hadronically decaying W boson is used to constrain in situ the uncertain jet energy scale in the CDF detector. Two-dimensional probability density functions are derived using a kernel density estimate-based machinery. Using 1.9 fb−1 of data, the top quark mass is measured to be 171.8{sub -1.9}{sup +1.9}(stat.) ± 1.0(syst.)GeV/c2.

CDF Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton + Jets Channel Using the Multivariate Template Method

CDF Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton + Jets Channel Using the Multivariate Template Method
Author: John Freeman
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Total Pages: 3
Release: 2004
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The authors measure the mass of the top quark using 162 pb{sup -1} of data collected by the CDF experiment at FNAL in Run II. The decay chain t{bar t} {yields} bq{bar q}{bar b}lv is studied using a novel technique called the Multivariate Template Method (MTM). Using this technique they obtain a result of M{sub top} = 179.6{sub -6.3}{sup +6.4} {+-} 6.8 GeV/c{sup 2} for the top quark.

Measurements of the Top-quark Decay Width and Mass at CDF Using the Template Method

Measurements of the Top-quark Decay Width and Mass at CDF Using the Template Method
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Release: 2012
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Measurements of the top quark decay width and mass are presented using the tt events produced in p p collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron collider and collected by the CDF II detector. A data sample corresponding to 4.3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity is used for the top quark width measurement. Two estimators, the reconstructed top quark mass and the mass of hadronically decaying W boson that comes from the top-quark decay are reconstructed for each event and compared with templates of different input top quark widths and deviations from nominal CDF jet energy scale ([Delta]JES) to perform a simultaneous fit for both parameters. [Delta]JES is used for the in situ calibration of the jet energy scale at CDF. By applying a Feldman-Cousins limit-setting approach, we establish an upper limit at 95% confidence level (CL) of [Gamma]top

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF Using the Ǹeutrino Phi Weighting' Template Method on a Lepton Plus Isolated Track Sample

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF Using the Ǹeutrino Phi Weighting' Template Method on a Lepton Plus Isolated Track Sample
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We present a measurement of the top quark mass with t{bar t} dilepton events produced in p{bar p} collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron (√s = 1.96 TeV) and collected by the CDF II detector. A sample of 328 events with a charged electron or muon and an isolated track, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 fb−1, are selected as t{bar t} candidates. To account for the unconstrained event kinematics, we scan over the phase space of the azimuthal angles (?{sub {nu}1},?{sub {nu}2}) of neutrinos and reconstruct the top quark mass for each?{sub {nu}1},?{sub {nu}2} pair by minimizing a?2 function in the t{bar t} dilepton hypothesis. We assign?2-dependent weights to the solutions in order to build a preferred mass for each event. Preferred mass distributions (templates) are built from simulated t{bar t} and background events, and parameterized in order to provide continuous probability density functions. A likelihood fit to the mass distribution in data as a weighted sum of signal and background probability density functions gives a top quark mass of 165.5{sub -3.3}{sup +3.4}(stat.)±3.1(syst.) GeV/c2.