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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152001 (2009) [8 pages]

Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass with Dilepton Events Selected Using Neuroevolution at CDF

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T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 1 August 2008; published 14 April 2009

We report a measurement of the top-quark mass Mt in the dilepton decay channel tt̅ →bl′+νlb̅ l-ν̅ l. Events are selected with a neural network which has been directly optimized for statistical precision in top-quark mass using neuroevolution, a technique modeled on biological evolution. The top-quark mass is extracted from per-event probability densities that are formed by the convolution of leading order matrix elements and detector resolution functions. The joint probability is the product of the probability densities from 344 candidate events in 2.0  fb-1 of pp̅ collisions collected with the CDF II detector, yielding a measurement of Mt=171.2±2.7(stat)±2.9(syst)  GeV/c2.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.152001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.152001
PACS:
14.65.Ha, 12.15.Ff, 13.85.Ni, 13.85.Qk