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Physique/Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience
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| Titre : |
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Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider |
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T. Aaltonen, M. C. Cousinou1, A. Duperrin1, W. Geng1, E. Kajfasz1, S. Kermiche1, E. Nagy1, N. Osman1, J.-F. Grivaz2, T. Guillemin2, M. Jaffré2, P. Pétroff2, H. Li3, G. Sajot3, J. Stark3, F. Badaud4, P. Gay4, P. Gris4, G. Grenier5, T. Kurca5, P. Lebrun5, P. Verdier5, A. Savoy-Navarro6 |
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APC - AHE |
| Résumé : |
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The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about twice the mass of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons of the weak interaction, and about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a $W$ boson and a bottom quark, and the $W$ boson then decays to a lepton and a neutrino or to a quark-antiquark pair. Using top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the CDF and {\dzero} collaborations have measured the top quark's mass in different decay channels for integrated luminosities of up to 5.8 fb$^{-1}$. This paper reports on a combination of these measurements that results in a more precise value of the mass than any individual decay channel can provide. It describes the treatment of the systematic uncertainties and their correlations. The mass value determined is $173.18 \pm 0.56({\rm stat}) \pm 0.75({\rm syst})$ GeV or $173.18 \pm 0.94$ GeV, which has a precision of $\pm 0.54%$, making the mass of the top quark the most accurately measured mass of the standard model quarks. |
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CDF
D0 |
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Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture |
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Date de publication
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2012 |
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| Nom du périodique : |
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| Physical Review D (Phys. Rev. D) |
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American Physical Society |
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1550-7998 (eISSN : 1550-2368) |
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86 |
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092003 |
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| Identifiant local : |
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LPSC12194 |
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| Commentaire : |
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30 pages and 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D - See paper for full list of authors |
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