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Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider

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Aaltonen, T; Abazov, VM; Abbott, B; Acharya, BS; Adams, M; Adams, T; Alexeev, GD; Alkhazov, G; Alton, A; Alvarez González, B; Alverson, G ...
Published in: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
November 2, 2012

The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a W boson and a bottom quark. Using top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the CDF and D0 Collaborations have measured the top quark's mass in different final states for integrated luminosities of up to 5.8fb-1. This paper reports on a combination of these measurements that results in a more precise value of the mass than any individual decay channel can provide. It describes the treatment of the systematic uncertainties and their correlations. The mass value determined is 173.18±0.56(stat)±0.75(syst)GeV or 173.18±0.94GeV, which has a precision of ±0.54%, making this the most precise determination of the top-quark mass. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

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1550-2368

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1550-7998

Publication Date

November 2, 2012

Volume

86

Issue

9

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
 

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Aaltonen, T., Abazov, V. M., Abbott, B., Acharya, B. S., Adams, M., Adams, T., … Burkett, K. (2012). Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86(9). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.092003
Aaltonen, T., V. M. Abazov, B. Abbott, B. S. Acharya, M. Adams, T. Adams, G. D. Alexeev, et al. “Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86, no. 9 (November 2, 2012). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.092003.
Aaltonen T, Abazov VM, Abbott B, Acharya BS, Adams M, Adams T, et al. Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2012 Nov 2;86(9).
Aaltonen, T., et al. “Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 86, no. 9, Nov. 2012. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.092003.
Aaltonen T, Abazov VM, Abbott B, Acharya BS, Adams M, Adams T, Alexeev GD, Alkhazov G, Alton A, Alvarez González B, Alverson G, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Appel JA, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Askew A, Atkins S, Auerbach B, Augsten K, Aurisano A, Avila C, Azfar F, Badaud F, Badgett W, Bae T, Bagby L, Baldin B, Bandurin DV, Banerjee S, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barberis E, Baringer P, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartlett JF, Bartos P, Bassler U, Bauce M, Bazterra V, Bean A, Bedeschi F, Begalli M, Behari S, Bellantoni L, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Beri SB, Bernardi G, Bernhard R, Bertram I, Besançon M, Beuselinck R, Bhat PC, Bhatia S, Bhatnagar V, Bhatti A, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Bland KR, Blazey G, Blessing S, Bloom K, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Boehnlein A, Boline D, Boos EE, Borissov G, Bortoletto D, Bose T, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brandt A, Brandt O, Brigliadori L, Brock R, Bromberg C, Bross A, Brown D, Brown J, Brucken E, Bu XB, Budagov J, Budd HS, Buehler M, Buescher V, Bunichev V, Burdin S, Burkett K. Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2012 Nov 2;86(9).

Published In

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI

EISSN

1550-2368

ISSN

1550-7998

Publication Date

November 2, 2012

Volume

86

Issue

9

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences