Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurements at CDF

TL;DR

This paper reports the most precise measurement of the top-quark mass using the full Tevatron data set from the CDF II detector, employing template fitting and in situ calibration techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a new highly precise top-quark mass measurement method using full Tevatron data with improved calibration and template analysis.

Findings

Top-quark mass measured as 172.85 GeV/c^2

Achieved the most precise top-quark mass measurement to date

Utilized in situ calibration for improved accuracy

Abstract

We present a precision measurement of the top-quark mass using the full sample of Tevatron $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV proton-antiproton collisions collected by the CDF II detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7 $fb^{-1}$. Using a sample of $t\bar{t}$ candidate events decaying into the lepton+jets channel, we obtain distributions of the top-quark masses and the invariant mass of two jets from the $W$ boson decays from data. We then compare these distributions to templates derived from signal and background samples to extract the top-quark mass and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with {\it in situ} calibration. The likelihood fit of the templates from signal and background events to the data yields the single most-precise measurement of the top-quark mass, $\mtop = 172.85 $\pm$ 0.71 (stat) $\pm$ 0.85 (syst) GeV/c^{2}.$