Study of ttbar Production in ppbar Collisions Using Total Transverse Energy
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2012-08-27 v1
Abstract
We analyze a sample of W + jet events collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV to study ttbar production. We employ a simple kinematical variable "H", defined as the scalar sum of the transverse energies of the lepton, neutrino and jets. For events with a W boson and four or more jets, the shape of the "H" distribution deviates by 3.8 standard deviations from that expected from known backgrounds to ttbar production. However this distribution agrees well with a linear combination of background and ttbar events, the agreement being best for a top mass of 180 GeV/c^2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9506006,
title = {Study of ttbar Production in ppbar Collisions Using Total Transverse Energy},
author = {The CDF Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9506006},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Postscript file (gzip+uuencode). 5-page, two-column PRL format (RevTex). Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. 09 June 1995