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Compact Muon Solenoid
LHC, CERN
CMS-TOP-11-027 ; CERN-PH-EP-2013-059
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Measurement of masses in the tˉt system by kinematic endpoints in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
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21 April 2013
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Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2494
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Abstract:
A simultaneous measurement of the top-quark, W-boson, and neutrino masses is reported for tˉt events selected in the dilepton final state from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 inverse femtobarns collected by the CMS experiment in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. The analysis is based on endpoint determinations in kinematic distributions. When the neutrino and W-boson masses are constrained to their world-average values, a top-quark mass value of Mt=173.9±0.9(stat.)+1.7−2.1 (syst.) GeV is obtained. When such constraints are not used, the three particle masses are obtained in a simultaneous fit. In this unconstrained mode the study serves as a test of mass determination methods that may be used in beyond standard model physics scenarios where several masses in a decay chain may be unknown and undetected particles lead to underconstrained kinematics.
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Links:
e-print arXiv:1304.5783 [hep-ex] (PDF) ;
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inSPIRE record ;
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