Wednesday, March 20, 2013

1303.3988 (Benjamin Nachman et al.)

Measuring the Top Quark Mass using Kinematic Endpoints    [PDF]

Benjamin Nachman, on behalf of the CMS collaboration
We report on a simultaneous measurement of the top quark, W boson, and neutrino masses in $t\bar{t}$ dilepton decays with $4.98 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data from the CMS experiment. The analysis is based on endpoint determinations in kinematic distributions. In addition to the unconstrained fit for three masses, the neutrino and W boson masses can be constrained to standard values; in the maximally constrained fit, the top quark mass is found to be $M_t = 173.9 \pm 0.9 (stat) {}^{+1.2}_{-1.8} (syst) $ GeV.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3988

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