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Top Quark Mass Measurement using mT2 in the Dilepton Channel at CDF

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(2009)cite arxiv:0911.2956 Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D.

Abstract

We present measurements of the top quark mass using the \mT2, a variable related to the transverse mass in events with two missing particles. We use the template method applied to tdilepton events produced in pcollisions at Fermilab's Tevatron and collected by the CDF detector. From a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.4 ınvfb, we select 236 t\tbar candidate events. Using the \mT2 distribution, we measure the top quark mass to be M_Top = 168.0^+4.8_-4.0 $\pm$ 2.9 GeV/c^2. By combining the \mT2 with the reconstructed top mass distributions based on a neutrino weighting method, we measure M_top=169.3 $\pm$ 2.7 $\pm$ 3.2 GeV/c^2. This is the first application of the \mT2 variable in a mass measurement at a hadron collider.

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