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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022004 (2006) [7 pages]

Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton+Jets Topology in pp̅ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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A. Abulencia et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 18 October 2005; published 19 January 2006

We report two measurements of the top-quark mass Mtop using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in a 318  pb-1 data sample of tt̅ events in the lepton+jets final state. One method uses an event-based likelihood technique resulting in Mtop=173.2-2.4+2.6(stat)±3.2(syst)  GeV/c2 or 173.2-4.0+4.1  GeV/c2. The second method reconstructs a top-quark mass in each event using the measured invariant mass of the hadronically decaying W boson to constrain the jet energy scale to obtain a value for Mtop of 173.5-3.6+3.7(stat)±1.3(syst)  GeV/c2 or 173.5-3.8+3.9  GeV/c2. We take the latter, which is more precise, as our result.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.022004
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.022004
PACS:
14.65.Ha, 12.15.Ff