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A precision measurement of the top quark mass m_t is obtained using a sample of ttbar events from ppbar collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with the CDF II detector. Selected events require an electron or muon, large missing transverse…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-12-28 T. Aaltonen et al.

The general strategy, as well as channel-specific details, applied to the measurement of the top quark mass at the Tevatron in Run I are reviewed, and the combination of the results obtained by the CDF and DO collaborations presented. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Brooijmans

Measurements involving top quarks provide important tests of QCD. A selected set of top quark measurements in CMS including the strong coupling constant, top quark pole mass, constraints on parton distribution functions, top quark pair…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Efe Yazgan

In this contribution I review the physics of top quarks at a future Linear Collider. Main emphasis is put on the process e+ e- to ttbar close to threshold. Different physical observables, their sensitivity to the basic parameters and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Teubner

We employ a top-quark mass measurement technique in the dilepton channel with {\it in situ} jet energy scale calibration. Three variables having different jet energy scale dependences are used simultaneously to extract not only the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-19 Hyun Su Lee

We present a new measurement of the mass of the top quark using lepton + jets ttbar events collected by the DO experiment in Run I of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The mass is extracted through a comparison of each event with a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Abazov , The D0 Collaboration

We investigate the need and prospects for measuring dark matter properties at particle collider experiments. We discuss the connections between the inferred properties of particle dark matter and the physics that is expected to be uncovered…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Birkedal

The prospects for a precise exploration of the properties of a single or many observed Higgs bosons at future accelerators are summarized, with particular emphasis on the abilities of a Linear Collider (LC). Some implications of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Conway , K. Desch , J. F. Gunion , S. Mrenna , D. Zeppenfeld

We present the latest measurements of the top quark mass from the Tevatron. The different top decay channels and measurement techniques used for these results are also described. The world average of the top quark mass based on some of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-03 M. H. L. S. Wang

We measure the top quark mass m_t using t tbar pairs produced in the D0 detector by root(s) = 1.8 TeV p pbar collisions in a 125 pb^-1 exposure at the Fermilab Tevatron. We make a two constraint fit to m_t in t tbar --> b W^+ bbar W^- final…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 D0 Collaboration , S. Abachi

Accurate measurements of particles masses, couplings and widths are possible by measuring production cross sections near threshold. We discuss the prospects for performing such measurements at a high luminosity muon collider.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. S. Berger

I present recent results related to the measurement of the top quark mass, using $p\bar{p}$ collisions recorded with the D{\O}Detector at the Tevatron. The results are: A direct measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-20 Daniel Boline

The most precise measurements of the top quark mass are based on the Matrix Element method. We present a detailed description of this analysis method, taking the measurements of the top quark mass in final states with one and two charged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-03-28 Frank Fiedler , Alexander Grohsjean , Petra Haefner , Philipp Schieferdecker

The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle known and its mass ($m_{\rm top}$) is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model (SM). The $m_{\rm top}$ value affects theory predictions of particle production cross-sections required…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-16 Giorgio Cortiana

Several proposals exist for energy-frontier facilities after the HL-LHC. In this contribution I review the potential of these facilities to perform key measurements of top quark properties and interacions. Top quark precision physics at a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-24 Marcel Vos

We report on recent measurements of the top quark mass using t t-bar candidate events selected in ~320/pb of data from the "Run II" operation period of the Tevatron p p-bar collider. More emphasis is given on the best single measurement to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Kostas Kordas

The top quark will be extensively studied at future muon colliders. The threshold cross section can be measured precisely, and the small beam energy spread is especially effective at making the measurement useful. We report on all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. S. Berger , B. L. Winer

The capabilities of the CMS detector at the LHC will be described for measuring high-pT hadrons, photons and jets in heavy ion collisions. Detailed simulations of various studies planned with the CMS apparatus, including charged particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Gábor I. Veres

Important analyses at a future linear collider, including top-quark and W-boson mass measurements will depend upon the precise determination of the luminosity spectrum. This can be done, in principle,in the planned detectors. We review the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Stewart T. Boogert , David J. Miller

If supersymmetric particles are produced at the Large Hadron Collider it becomes very important not only to identify them, but also to determine their masses with the highest possible precision, since this may lead to an understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. K. Gjelsten , D. J. Miller , P. Osland