Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

F. Abe, H. Akimoto, A. Akopian, M. G. Albrow, A. Amadon, S. R. Amendolia, D. Amidei, J. Antoš, S. Aota, G. Apollinari,

Physical Review Letters · 1999 · 79 citations · 14 references

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We present a new measurement of the top quark mass in $t\overline{t}$ events in which both $W$ bosons from top quarks decay into leptons $(e\ensuremath{\nu},\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu})$. We use events collected by the CDF experiment from $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}1.8\mathrm{TeV}$ at the Tevatron collider. We measure a top quark mass of $167.4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}10.3(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}4.8(\mathrm{syst})\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}\mathrm{GeV}{/c}^{2}$ from a sample of eight events. We combine this result with previous CDF measurements in other decay channels to obtain a final mass value of $176.0\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}6.5\mathrm{GeV}{/c}^{2}$.

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