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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2779–2784 (1998)

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass and tt̅ Production Cross Section from Dilepton Events at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

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F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
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Received 30 September 1997; published in the issue dated 30 March 1998

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We present an analysis of dilepton events originating from tt̅ production in pp̅ collisions at s = 1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 109±7 pb-1. We observe nine candidate events, with an estimated background of 2.4±0.5 events. We determine the mass of the top quark to be Mtop = 161±17(stat)±10(syst) GeV/c2. In addition, we measure a tt̅ production cross section of 8.2-3.4+4.4 pb (where Mtop = 175 GeV/c2 has been assumed for the acceptance estimate).

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2779
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2779
PACS:
14.65.Ha, 13.85.Ni, 13.85.Qk