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Cross Section Constrained Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2010-05-12 v1

Abstract

We report the first top quark mass measurement that uses a cross section constraint to improve the mass determination. This measurement is made with a dilepton ttˉt\bar{t} event sample collected with the CDF II detector. From a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.2 fb1^{-1}, we measure a top quark mass of 170.73.9+4.2(stat)±2.6(syst)\rm{170.7^{+4.2}_{-3.9}(stat)\pm2.6(syst)} ±2.4(theory)GeV/c2\rm{\pm2.4(theory) GeV/{\it{c}}^{2}}. The measurement without the cross section constraint results in a top quark mass of 169.74.9+5.2(stat)±3.1(syst)GeV/c2\rm{169.7^{+5.2}_{-4.9}(stat)\pm3.1(syst) GeV/{\it{c}}^{2}}.

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@article{arxiv.0710.4037,
  title  = {Cross Section Constrained Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at the Tevatron},
  author = {CDF Collaboration and T. Aaltonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4037},
  year   = {2010}
}

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submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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