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

TL;DR

This paper reports a new measurement of the top quark mass using dilepton decay channels from proton-antiproton collisions at Fermilab, combining results for improved accuracy.

Contribution

It provides a novel measurement of the top quark mass in dilepton channels and combines it with previous results for a more precise estimate.

Findings

Measured top quark mass: 167.4 ± 10.3 (stat) ± 4.8 (syst) GeV/c^2

Combined top quark mass: 176.0 ± 6.5 GeV/c^2

Analysis used 8 events from the CDF experiment

Abstract

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