Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider
The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a W boson and a bottom quark. Using top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the CDF and D0 Col...
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| author | Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Paus, Christoph M. E. |
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| description | The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a W boson and a bottom quark. Using top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the CDF and D0 Collaborations have measured the top quark’s mass in different final states for integrated luminosities of up to 5.8 fb[superscript -1]. This paper reports on a combination of these measurements that results in a more precise value of the mass than any individual decay channel can provide. It describes the treatment of the systematic uncertainties and their correlations. The mass value determined is 173.18±0.56 (stat)±0.75 (syst) GeV or 173.18±0.94 GeV, which has a precision of ±0.54%, making this the most precise determination of the top-quark mass. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/761912022-09-28T18:53:54Z Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Paus, Christoph M. E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Paus, Christoph M. E. The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a W boson and a bottom quark. Using top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the CDF and D0 Collaborations have measured the top quark’s mass in different final states for integrated luminosities of up to 5.8 fb[superscript -1]. This paper reports on a combination of these measurements that results in a more precise value of the mass than any individual decay channel can provide. It describes the treatment of the systematic uncertainties and their correlations. The mass value determined is 173.18±0.56 (stat)±0.75 (syst) GeV or 173.18±0.94 GeV, which has a precision of ±0.54%, making this the most precise determination of the top-quark mass. 2013-01-08T16:02:57Z 2013-01-08T16:02:57Z 2012-11 2012-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1550-7998 1089-4918 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76191 Aaltonen, T. et al. “Combination of the Top-quark Mass Measurements from the Tevatron Collider.” Physical Review D 86.9 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.092003 Physical Review D Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Paus, Christoph M. E. Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
| title | Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
| title_full | Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
| title_fullStr | Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
| title_short | Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
| title_sort | combination of the top quark mass measurements from the tevatron collider |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76191 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 |
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