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CMS-TOP-11-027 ; CERN-PH-EP-2013-059
Measurement of masses in the tˉt system by kinematic endpoints in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2494
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.)+1.72.1 (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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