Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-02-04
Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond.A455:2803-2834,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages from PostScript file (Latex2e and 11 PostScript figures used rspublic.sty, eps.sty). Submitted to Proc. Royal Society
Scientific paper
10.1098/rspa.1999.0428
We have carried out Monte Carlo calculations on two sets of randomly generated QCD events due to $p\bar{p} \to t \bar{t}$ with top mass $m_t = 170$ GeV, one set leading to $e^+e^-$ or $e^{\pm}\mu^{\mp}$ or $\mu^+\mu^-$ 2jets (dilepton) and the other leading to $e^{\pm}$ or $\mu^{\pm}$ 4jets (unilepton) configurations, in order to test the likelihood methods we have proposed for determining the top mass by analyses of these two sets of configurations. For the set of unilepton events, our method gives a very efficient and quite sharp measure of the top mass lying several GeV below the input mass. For the dilepton set, our method gives a much broader and markedly asymmetric distribution for the top mass estimates, 75% of them lying below 170 GeV, but the dilepton data will have much lower background than unilepton data. We then illustrate these methods by applying them to the data available from CDF in 1995 and discuss the results obtained in relation to the results for the sets of Monte Carlo events. The dilepton events yield masses spread widely, over 140 to 180 GeV, generally lower than the unilepton events, which cluster around $175\pm 8$ GeV. In an appendix, we discuss the nature of the additional ``slow'' $\mu^{+}$ observed in one CDF dilepton event, concluding that it is most probably a ``tertiary lepton'' resulting from the decay sequence $b\to c + hadrons$, followed by $c\to s \mu^{+} \nu$.
Dalitz Richard H.
Goldstein Gary R.
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