Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Measurement of the top quark mass in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV using the decay length technique

  • A. Abulencia
  • , J. Adelman
  • , T. Affolder
  • , T. Akimoto
  • , M. G. Albrow
  • , D. Ambrose
  • , S. Amerio
  • , D. Amidei
  • , A. Anastassov
  • , K. Anikeev
  • , A. Annovi
  • , J. Antos
  • , M. Aoki
  • , G. Apollinari
  • , J. F. Arguin
  • , T. Arisawa
  • , A. Artikov
  • , W. Ashmanskas
  • , A. Attal
  • , F. Azfar
  • P. Azzi-Bacchetta, P. Azzurri, N. Bacchetta, W. Badgett, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, S. Baroiant, V. Bartsch, G. Bauer, F. Bedeschi, S. Behari, S. Belforte, G. Bellettini, J. Bellinger, A. Belloni, D. Benjamin, A. Beretvas, J. Beringer, T. Berry, A. Bhatti, M. Binkley, D. Bisello, R. E. Blair, C. Blocker, B. Blumenfeld, A. Bocci, A. Bodek, V. Boisvert, G. Bolla, A. Bolshov, D. Bortoletto, J. Boudreau, A. Boveia, B. Brau, L. Brigliadori, C. Bromberg, E. Brubaker, J. Budagov, H. S. Budd, S. Budd, S. Budroni, K. Burkett, G. Busetto, P. Bussey, K. L. Byrum, S. Cabrera, M. Campanelli, M. Campbell, F. Canelli, A. Canepa, S. Carillo, D. Carlsmith, R. Carosi, S. Carron, M. Casarsa, A. Castro, P. Catastini, D. Cauz, M. Cavalli-Sforza, A. Cerri, L. Cerrito, S. H. Chang, Y. C. Chen, M. Chertok, G. Chiarelli, G. Chlachidze, F. Chlebana, I. Cho, K. Cho, D. Chokheli, J. P. Chou, G. Choudalakis, S. H. Chuang, K. Chung, W. H. Chung, Y. S. Chung, M. Ciljak, C. I. Ciobanu, M. A. Ciocci, A. Clark, D. Clark, M. Coca, G. Compostella, M. E. Convery, J. Conway, B. Cooper, K. Copic, M. Cordelli, G. Cortiana, F. Crescioli, C. Cuenca Almenar, J. Cuevas, R. Culbertson, J. C. Cully, D. Cyr, S. DaRonco, M. Datta, S. D'Auria, T. Davies, M. D'Onofrio, D. Dagenhart, P. De Barbaro, S. De Cecco, A. Deisher, G. De Lentdecker, M. Dell'Orso, F. Delli Paoli, L. Demortier, J. Deng, M. Deninno, D. De Pedis, P. F. Derwent, G. P. Di Giovanni, C. Dionisi, B. Di Ruzza, J. R. Dittmann, P. DiTuro, C. Dörr, S. Donati, M. Donega, P. Dong, J. Donini, T. Dorigo, S. Dube, J. Efron, R. Erbacher, D. Errede, S. Errede, R. Eusebi, H. C. Fang, S. Farrington, I. Fedorko, W. T. Fedorko, R. G. Feild, M. Feindt, J. P. Fernandez, R. Field, G. Flanagan, A. Foland, S. Forrester, G. W. Foster, M. Franklin, J. C. Freeman, I. Furic, M. Gallinaro, J. Galyardt, J. E. Garcia, F. Garberson, A. F. Garfinkel, C. Gay, H. Gerberich, D. Gerdes, S. Giagu, P. Giannetti, A. Gibson, K. Gibson, J. L. Gimmell, C. Ginsburg, N. Giokaris, M. Giordani, P. Giromini, M. Giunta, G. Giurgiu, V. Glagolev, D. Glenzinski, M. Gold, N. Goldschmidt, J. Goldstein, A. Golossanov, G. Gomez, G. Gomez-Ceballos, M. Goncharov, O. González, I. Gorelov, A. T. Goshaw, K. Goulianos, A. Gresele, M. Griffiths, S. Grinstein, C. Grosso-Pilcher, R. C. Group, U. Grundler, J. Guimaraes Da Costa, Z. Gunay-Unalan, C. Haber, K. Hahn, S. R. Hahn, E. Halkiadakis, A. Hamilton, B. Y. Han, J. Y. Han, R. Handler, F. Happacher, K. Hara, M. Hare, S. Harper, R. F. Harr, R. M. Harris, M. Hartz, K. Hatakeyama, J. Hauser, A. Heijboer, B. Heinemann, J. Heinrich, C. Henderson, M. Herndon, J. Heuser, D. Hidas, C. S. Hill, D. Hirschbuehl, A. Hocker, A. Holloway, S. Hou, M. Houlden, S. C. Hsu, B. T. Huffman, R. E. Hughes, U. Husemann, J. Huston, J. Incandela, G. Introzzi, M. Iori, Y. Ishizawa, A. Ivanov, B. Iyutin, E. James, D. Jang, B. Jayatilaka, D. Jeans, H. Jensen, E. J. Jeon, S. Jindariani, M. Jones, K. K. Joo, S. Y. Jun, J. E. Jung, T. R. Junk, T. Kamon, P. E. Karchin, Y. Kato, Y. Kemp, R. Kephart, U. Kerzel, V. Khotilovich, B. Kilminster, D. H. Kim, H. S. Kim, J. E. Kim, M. J. Kim, S. B. Kim, S. H. Kim, Y. K. Kim, N. Kimura, L. Kirsch, S. Klimenko, M. Klute, B. Knuteson, B. R. Ko, K. Kondo, D. J. Kong, J. Konigsberg, A. Korytov, A. V. Kotwal, A. Kovalev, A. C. Kraan, J. Kraus, I. Kravchenko, M. Kreps, J. Kroll, N. Krumnack, M. Kruse, V. Krutelyov, T. Kubo, S. E. Kuhlmann, T. Kuhr, Y. Kusakabe, S. Kwang, A. T. Laasanen, S. Lai, S. Lami, S. Lammel, M. Lancaster, R. L. Lander, K. Lannon, A. Lath, G. Latino, I. Lazzizzera, T. LeCompte, J. Lee, J. Lee, Y. J. Lee, S. W. Lee, R. Lefèvre, N. Leonardo, S. Leone, S. Levy, J. D. Lewis, C. Lin, C. S. Lin, M. Lindgren, E. Lipeles, A. Lister, D. O. Litvintsev, T. Liu, N. S. Lockyer, A. Loginov, M. Loreti, P. Loverre, R. S. Lu, D. Lucchesi, P. Lujan, P. Lukens, G. Lungu, L. Lyons, J. Lys, R. Lysak, E. Lytken, P. Mack, D. MacQueen, R. Madrak, K. Maeshima, K. Makhoul, T. Maki, P. Maksimovic, S. Malde, G. Manca, F. Margaroli, R. Marginean, C. Marino, C. P. Marino, A. Martin, M. Martin, V. Martin, M. Martínez, T. Maruyama, P. Mastrandrea, T. Masubuchi, H. Matsunaga, M. E. Mattson, R. Mazini, P. Mazzanti, K. S. McFarland, P. McIntyre, R. McNulty, A. Mehta, P. Mehtala, S. Menzemer, A. Menzione, P. Merkel, C. Mesropian, A. Messina, T. Miao, N. Miladinovic, J. Miles, R. Miller, C. Mills, M. Milnik, A. Mitra, G. Mitselmakher, A. Miyamoto, S. Moed, N. Moggi, B. Mohr, R. Moore, M. Morello, P. Movilla Fernandez, J. Mülmenstädt, A. Mukherjee, Th Muller, R. Mumford, P. Murat, J. Nachtman, A. Nagano, J. Naganoma, I. Nakano, A. Napier, V. Necula, C. Neu, M. S. Neubauer, J. Nielsen, T. Nigmanov, L. Nodulman, O. Norniella, E. Nurse, S. H. Oh, Y. D. Oh, I. Oksuzian, T. Okusawa, R. Oldeman, R. Orava, K. Osterberg, C. Pagliarone, E. Palencia, V. Papadimitriou, A. A. Paramonov, B. Parks, S. Pashapour, J. Patrick, G. Pauletta, M. Paulini, C. Paus, D. E. Pellett, A. Penzo, T. J. Phillips, G. Piacentino, J. Piedra, L. Pinera, K. Pitts, C. Plager, L. Pondrom, X. Portell, O. Poukhov, N. Pounder, F. Prakoshyn, A. Pronko, J. Proudfoot, F. Ptohos, G. Punzi, J. Pursley, J. Rademacker, A. Rahaman, N. Ranjan, S. Rappoccio, B. Reisert, V. Rekovic, P. Renton, M. Rescigno, S. Richter, F. Rimondi, L. Ristori, A. Robson, T. Rodrigo, E. Rogers, S. Rolli, R. Roser, M. Rossi, R. Rossin, A. Ruiz, J. Russ, V. Rusu, H. Saarikko, S. Sabik, A. Safonov, W. K. Sakumoto, G. Salamanna, O. Saltó, D. Saltzberg, C. Sánchez, L. Santi, S. Sarkar, L. Sartori, K. Sato, P. Savard, A. Savoy-Navarro, T. Scheidle, P. Schlabach, E. E. Schmidt, M. P. Schmidt, M. Schmitt, T. Schwarz, L. Scodellaro, A. L. Scott, A. Scribano, F. Scuri, A. Sedov, S. Seidel, Y. Seiya, A. Semenov, L. Sexton-Kennedy, A. Sfyrla, M. D. Shapiro, T. Shears, P. F. Shepard, D. Sherman, M. Shimojima, M. Shochet, Y. Shon, I. Shreyber, A. Sidoti, P. Sinervo, A. Sisakyan, J. Sjolin, A. J. Slaughter, J. Slaunwhite, K. Sliwa, J. R. Smith, F. D. Snider, R. Snihur, M. Soderberg, A. Soha, S. Somalwar, V. Sorin, J. Spalding, F. Spinella, T. Spreitzer, P. Squillacioti, M. Stanitzki, A. Staveris-Polykalas, R. St Denis, B. Stelzer, O. Stelzer-Chilton, D. Stentz, J. Strologas, D. Stuart, J. S. Suh, A. Sukhanov, H. Sun, T. Suzuki, A. Taffard, R. Takashima, Y. Takeuchi, K. Takikawa, M. Tanaka, R. Tanaka, M. Tecchio, P. K. Teng, K. Terashi, J. Thom, A. S. Thompson, E. Thomson, P. Tipton, V. Tiwari, S. Tkaczyk, D. Toback, S. Tokar, K. Tollefson, T. Tomura, D. Tonelli, S. Torre, D. Torretta, S. Tourneur, W. Trischuk, R. Tsuchiya, S. Tsuno, N. Turini, F. Ukegawa, T. Unverhau, S. Uozumi, D. Usynin, S. Vallecorsa, N. Van Remortel, A. Varganov, E. Vataga, F. Vázquez, G. Velev, G. Veramendi, V. Veszpremi, R. Vidal, I. Vila, R. Vilar, T. Vine, I. Vollrath, I. Volobouev, G. Volpi, F. Würthwein, P. Wagner, R. G. Wagner, R. L. Wagner, J. Wagner, W. Wagner, R. Wallny, S. M. Wang, A. Warburton, S. Waschke, D. Waters, M. Weinberger, W. C. Wester, B. Whitehouse, D. Whiteson, A. B. Wicklund, E. Wicklund, G. Williams, H. H. Williams, P. Wilson, B. L. Winer, P. Wittich, S. Wolbers, C. Wolfe, T. Wright, X. Wu, S. M. Wynne, A. Yagil, K. Yamamoto, J. Yamaoka, T. Yamashita, C. Yang, U. K. Yang, Y. C. Yang, W. M. Yao, G. P. Yeh, J. Yoh, K. Yorita, T. Yoshida, G. B. Yu, I. Yu, S. S. Yu, J. C. Yun, L. Zanello, A. Zanetti, I. Zaw, X. Zhang, J. Zhou, S. Zucchelli
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of California at Santa Barbara
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of Padua
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Comenius University
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • McGill University
  • University of Toronto
  • Waseda University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • University of Oxford
  • Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Purdue University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of California at Davis
  • University College London
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Trieste
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Duke University
  • University of Liverpool
  • Rockefeller University
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Brandeis University
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Bologna
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Glasgow
  • Dept. Física At. Mol. y Nuclear
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Florida
  • Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA)
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Kyungpook National University
  • Seoul National University
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Harvard University
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Universidad de Cantabria
  • University of Oviedo
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies
  • Baylor University
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Ohio State University
  • Yale University
  • CIEMAT
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of Bristol
  • Texas A&M University
  • Tufts University
  • Wayne State University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Osaka Metropolitan University
  • Texas Tech University
  • University of Helsinki
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University College Dublin
  • Heidelberg University 
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • Okayama University
  • University of Cyprus
  • Northwestern University
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Cornell University
  • University of Manchester

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

21 Scopus citations

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the top quark mass using the decay length technique in pp̄ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. This technique uses the measured flight distance of the b hadron to infer the mass of the top quark in lepton plus jets events with missing transverse energy. It relies solely on tracking and avoids the jet energy scale uncertainty that is common to all other methods used so far. We apply our novel method to a 695pb-1 data sample recorded by the CDF II detector at Fermilab and extract a measurement of mt=180.7-13.4+15.5(stat.)±8.6(syst.)GeV/c2. While the uncertainty of this result is larger than that of other measurements, the dominant uncertainties in the decay length technique are uncorrelated with those in other methods. This result can help reduce the overall uncertainty when combined with other existing measurements of the top quark mass.

Original languageEnglish
Article number071102
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume75
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Apr 2007

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Measurement of the top quark mass in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV using the decay length technique'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this