Top-quark mass measurement using events with missing transverse energy and jets at CDF

TL;DR

This paper measures the top-quark mass using events with missing transverse energy and jets at the CDF detector, including tau leptons, employing a multidimensional template fitting method.

Contribution

It introduces a novel measurement of the top-quark mass using a new event selection and template method that includes tau leptons and missing energy.

Findings

Measured top-quark mass: 172.3 GeV/c^2

Used 5.7 fb^{-1} of data from Fermilab Tevatron

Included events with no identified charged leptons

Abstract

We present a measurement of the top-quark mass using a sample of $t\bar{t}$ events in 5.7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity from $p\bar{p}$ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with $\sqrt{s} =$ 1.96 TeV and collected by the CDF II Detector. We select events having no identified charged leptons, large missing transverse energy, and four, five, or six jets with at least one jet tagged as coming from a $b$ quark. This analysis considers events from the semileptonic \ttbar decay channel, including events that contain tau leptons. The measurement is based on a multidimensional template method. We fit the data to signal templates of varying top-quark masses and background templates, and measure a top-quark mass of $\mtop = \gevcc{\measStatSyst{172.3}{2.4}{1.0}}$.