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The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of t t-bar candidate events with one electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state, collected by CMS in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC. A total of 5174 candidate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-19 The CMS Collaboration

We present a measurement of the top-quark mass in $p\bar p$ collisions at \hbox{$\sqrt{s}=1.96$} TeV which uses events with an inclusive signature of missing transverse energy and jets. % The event selection is sensitive to $t\bar t\to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 CDF-Collaboration

The top quark mass plays an important role in a variety of discussions both within and beyond the Standard Model. However, a precise determination of a theoretically well-defined top quark mass is still missing. Towards a precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Sayaka Kawabata

We study procedures for discriminating combinatorial jets in a high background environment, such as a heavy ion collision, from signal jets arising from a hard-scattering. We investigate a population of jets clustered from a combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Steffanic , C. Hughes , C. Nattrass

Identification of boosted, hadronically-decaying top quarks is a problem of central importance for physics goals of the Large Hadron Collider. We present a theoretical analysis of top quark tagging, establishing zeroth-order, minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 Andrew J. Larkoski

We present the first exclusive observation of the ttbar to hadronic tau + jets decay channel. Using these events from 1.96 TeV ppbar collisions at CDF, we measure the ttbar cross section as well as the top quark mass. Events require a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Daryl Hare , Eva Hakiadakis

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from ppbar collisions at 1.96 TeV observed with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) at the Fermilab Tevatron Run II. The events have the decay signature of ppbar to ttbar in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian Mohr

Single top-quark production, via weak-interaction processes, is an important test of the standard model, potentially sensitive to new physics. However, it is becoming known that this measurement is much more challenging at the Tevatron than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Matthew T. Bowen , Stephen D. Ellis , Matthew J. Strassler

This report describes a measurement of the top quark mass in $\ppbar$ collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV. The data sample was collected with the CDF detector during the 1992--95 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The CDF Collaboration

This letter reports a measurement of the top quark mass, M_{top}, in data from p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV corresponding to 2.7 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity at the Fermilab Tevatron using the CDF II detector. Events with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-20 The CDF Collaboration , T. Aaltonen

We present a measurement of the top quark mass and of the top-antitop pair production cross section using p-pbar data collected with the CDFII detector at the Tevatron Collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 The CDF Collaboration , T. Aaltonen

Various measurements of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets decay channel of top quark pair production are presented. The measurements are performed on data samples of up to 2.7 fb-1 of integrated luminosity acquired by the CDF and D0…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-12-09 Christian Schwanenberger

We determine the top quark mass m_t using t-tbar pairs produced in the D0 detector by \sqrt{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^-…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 D0 Collaboration , B. Abbott

We show that Neural Nets can be useful for top analysis at Tevatron. The main features of $t\bar t$ and background events on a mixed sample are projected in a single output, which controls the efficiency and purity of the $t\bar t$ signal.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Ll. Ametller , Ll. Garrido , P. Talavera

A novel technique for measuring the mass of the top quark that uses only the kinematic properties of its charged decay products is presented. Top quark pair events with final states with one or two charged leptons and hadronic jets are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-23 CMS Collaboration

Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-10 Jannicke Pearkes , Wojciech Fedorko , Alison Lister , Colin Gay

We report two measurements of the top quark mass M_top using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in a 318 pb^-1 data sample observed in the lepton + jets final state. One method uses an event-based likelihood technique resulting in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 CDF Collaboration

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

In a recent article, we proposed an energy correlator-based method to achieve a precision top quark mass extraction from jet substructure, using the $W$-boson mass as a standard candle. In this paper, we perform an extensive event generator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 Jack Holguin , Ian Moult , Aditya Pathak , Massimiliano Procura , Robert Schöfbeck , Dennis Schwarz

The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of $\rm{t}\bar{\rm t}$ candidate events with one lepton, muon or electron, and at least four jets in the final state, collected by the CMS detector in pp collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 Nataliia Kovalchuk