A Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With A Matrix Element Method
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Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Final State Using The Matrix Element Method
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Author : Alexander Grohsjean
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Final State Using The Matrix Element Method written by Alexander Grohsjean and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Science categories.
The main pacemakers of scienti?c research are curiosity, ingenuity, and a pinch of persistence. Equipped with these characteristics a young researcher will be s- cessful in pushing scienti?c discoveries. And there is still a lot to discover and to understand. In the course of understanding the origin and structure of matter it is now known that all matter is made up of six types of quarks. Each of these carry a different mass. But neither are the particular mass values understood nor is it known why elementary particles carry mass at all. One could perhaps accept some small generic mass value for every quark, but nature has decided differently. Two quarks are extremely light, three more have a somewhat typical mass value, but one quark is extremely massive. It is the top quark, the heaviest quark and even the heaviest elementary particle that we know, carrying a mass as large as the mass of three iron nuclei. Even though there exists no explanation of why different particle types carry certain masses, the internal consistency of the currently best theory—the standard model of particle physics—yields a relation between the masses of the top quark, the so-called W boson, and the yet unobserved Higgs particle. Therefore, when one assumes validity of the model, it is even possible to take precise measurements of the top quark mass to predict the mass of the Higgs (and potentially other yet unobserved) particles.
A Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With A Matrix Element Method
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Author : Adam Paul Gibson
language : en
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Release Date : 2006
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Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With The Matrix Element Method In The Semileptonic Decay Channel At
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language : en
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Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With A Matrix Element Method In The Lepton Plus Jets Channel At Cdf
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Author : Brian Mohr
language : en
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Release Date : 2006
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With A Matrix Element Method In The Lepton Plus Jets Channel At Cdf written by Brian Mohr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
The authors present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from p{bar p} 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 p{bar p} {yields} t{bar t} in the lepton plus jets channel in which at least one jet is identified as coming from a secondary vertex and therefore a b-hadron. The largest systematic uncertainty, the jet energy scale (JES), is convoluted with the statistical error using an in-situ measurement of the hadronic W boson mass. They calculate a likelihood for each event using leading-order t{bar t} and W+jets cross-sections and parameterized parton showering. The final measured top quark mass and JES systematic is extracted from a joint likelihood of the product of individual event likelihoods. From 118 events observed in 680 pb{sup -1} of data, they measure a top quark mass of 174.09 {+-} 2.54 (stat+JES) {+-} 1.35(syst) GeV/c{sup 2}.
Top Quark Physics At Hadron Colliders
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Author : Arnulf Quadt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-16
Top Quark Physics At Hadron Colliders written by Arnulf Quadt and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-16 with Science categories.
This will be a required acquisition text for academic libraries. More than ten years after its discovery, still relatively little is known about the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle. This extensive survey summarizes and reviews top-quark physics based on the precision measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, as well as examining in detail the sensitivity of these experiments to new physics. Finally, the author provides an overview of top quark physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
A Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In 1 96 Tev Proton Antiproton Collisions Using A Novel Matrix Element Method
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Author : John Freeman
language : en
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Release Date : 2007
A Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In 1 96 Tev Proton Antiproton Collisions Using A Novel Matrix Element Method written by John Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
A Top Quark Mass Measurement Using A Matrix Element Method
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Release Date : 2010
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A measurement of the mass of the top quark is presented, using top-antitop pair (t{bar t}) candidate events for the lepton+jets decay channel. The measurement makes use of Tevatron p{bar p} collision data at centre-of-mass energy √s = 1.96 TeV, collected at the CDF detector. The top quark mass is measured by employing an unbinned maximum likelihood method where the event probability density functions are calculated using signal (t{bar t}) and background (W+jets) matrix elements, as well as a set of parameterised jet-to-parton mapping functions. The likelihood function is maximised with respect to the top quark mass, the fraction of signal events, and a correction to the jet energy scale (JES) of the calorimeter jets. The simultaneous measurement of the JES correction ([Delta]{sub JES}) provides an in situ jet energy calibration based on the known mass of the hadronically decaying W boson. Using 578 lepton+jets candidate events corresponding to 3.2 fb−1 of integrated luminosity, the top quark mass is measured to be m{sub t} = 172.4 ± 1.4 (stat+[Delta]{sub JES}) ± 1.3 (syst) GeV=c2, one of the most precise single measurements to date.
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass In The Dilepton Final State Using The Matrix Element Method
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language : en
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The top quark, discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, is the heaviest known fundamental particle. The precise knowledge of its mass yields important constraints on the mass of the yet-unobserved Higgs boson and allows to probe for physics beyond the Standard Model. The first measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel with the Matrix Element method at the D0 experiment is presented. After a short description of the experimental environment and the reconstruction chain from hits in the detector to physical objects, a detailed review of the Matrix Element method is given. The Matrix Element method is based on the likelihood to observe a given event under the assumption of the quantity to be measured, e.g. the mass of the top quark. The method has undergone significant modifications and improvements compared to previous measurements in the lepton+jets channel: the two undetected neutrinos require a new reconstruction scheme for the four-momenta of the final state particles, the small event sample demands the modeling of additional jets in the signal likelihood, and a new likelihood is designed to account for the main source of background containing tauonic Z decay. The Matrix Element method is validated on Monte Carlo simulated events at the generator level. For the measurement, calibration curves are derived from events that are run through the full D0 detector simulation. The analysis makes use of the Run II data set recorded between April 2002 and May 2008 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.8 fb−1. A total of 107 t{bar t} candidate events with one electron and one muon in the final state are selected. Applying the Matrix Element method to this data set, the top quark mass is measured to be m{sub top}{sup Run IIa} = 170.6 ± 6.1(stat.){sub -1.5}{sup +2.1}(syst.)GeV; m{sub top}{sup Run IIb} = 174.1 ± 4.4(stat.){sub -1.8}{sup +2.5}(syst.)GeV; m{sub top}{sup comb} = 172.9 ± 3.6(stat.) ± 2.3(syst.)GeV. Systematic uncertainties are discussed, and the results are interpreted within the Standard Model of particle physics. As the main systematic uncertainty on the top quark mass comes from the knowledge of the absolute jet energy scale, studies for a simultaneous measurement of the top quark mass and the b jet energy scale are presented. The prospects that such a simultaneous determination offer for future measurements of the top quark mass are outlined.
Deep Inelastic Scattering Dis 2006 Proceedings Of The 14th International Workshop
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Author : Masahiro Kuze
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2007-01-23
Deep Inelastic Scattering Dis 2006 Proceedings Of The 14th International Workshop written by Masahiro Kuze and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-23 with Science categories.
These proceedings present the most up-to-date status of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) physics. Topics such as structure function measurements and phenomenology, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) studies in DIS and photoproduction, spin physics and diffractive interactions are reviewed in detail, with emphasis on those studies that push the test of QCD and the Standard Model to the limits of their present range of validity, towards both the very high and the very low four-momentum transfers in lepton-proton scattering.
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With The Matrix Element Method In The Semileptonic Decay Channel At D0
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Author : Petra Haefner
language : en
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Release Date : 2008
Measurement Of The Top Quark Mass With The Matrix Element Method In The Semileptonic Decay Channel At D0 written by Petra Haefner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.