Top Quark Mass Measurement Using a Matrix Element Method with Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2019-08-13 v2
Abstract
We report an updated measurement of the top quark mass obtained from ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron using the CDF II detector. Our measurement uses a matrix element integration method to obtain a signal likelihood, with a neural network used to identify background events and a likelihood cut applied to reduce the effect of badly reconstructed events. We use a 2.7 fb^-1 sample and observe 422 events passing all of our cuts. We find m_t = 172.2 +/- 1.0 (stat.) +/- 0.9 (JES) +/- 1.0 (syst.) GeV/c^2, or m_t = 172.2 +/- 1.7 (total) GeV/c^2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3739,
title = {Top Quark Mass Measurement Using a Matrix Element Method with Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration},
author = {Paul J. Lujan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3739},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
3 pages. Proceedings for the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08), Philadelphia, 2008. Minor text fixes