251. A precision measurement of the mass of the top quark.
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Abazov VM, Abbott B, Abdesselam A, Abolins M, Abramov V, Acharya BS, Adams DL, Adams M, Ahmed SN, Alexeev GD, Alton A, Alves GA, Arnoud Y, Avila C, Babintsev VV, Babukhadia L, Bacon TC, Baden A, Baffioni S, Baldin B, Balm PW, Banerjee S, Barberis E, Baringer P, Barreto J, Bartlett JF, Bassler U, Bauer D, Bean A, Beaudette F, Begel M, Belyaev A, Beri SB, Bernardi G, Bertram I, Besson A, Beuselinck R, Bezzubov VA, Bhat PC, Bhatnagar V, Bhattacharjee M, Blazey G, Blekman F, Blessing S, Boehnlein A, Bojko NI, Bolton TA, Borcherding F, Bos K, Bose T, Brandt A, Briskin G, Brock R, Brooijmans G, Bross A, Buchholz D, Buehler M, Buescher V, Burtovoi VS, Butler JM, Canelli F, Carvalho W, Casey D, Castilla-Valdez H, Chakraborty D, Chan KM, Chekulaev SV, Cho DK, Choi S, Chopra S, Claes D, Clark AR, Connolly B, Cooper WE, Coppage D, Crépé-Renaudin S, Cummings MA, Cutts D, Da Motta H, Davis GA, De K, De Jong SJ, Demarteau M, Demina R, Demine P, Denisov D, Denisov SP, Desai S, Diehl HT, Diesburg M, Doulas S, Dudko LV, Duflot L, Dugad SR, Duperrin A, Dyshkant A, Edmunds D, Ellison J, Eltzroth JT, Elvira VD, Engelmann R, Eno S, Eppley G, Ermolov P, Eroshin OV, Estrada J, Evans H, Evdokimov VN, Ferbel T, Filthaut F, Fisk HE, Fortner M, Fox H, Fu S, Fuess S, Gallas E, Galyaev AN, Gao M, Gavrilov V, Genik RJ 2nd, Genser K, Gerber CE, Gershtein Y, Ginther G, Gómez B, Goncharov PI, Gounder K, Goussiou A, Grannis PD, Greenlee H, Greenwood ZD, Grinstein S, Groer L, Grünendahl S, Grünewald MW, Gurzhiev SN, Gutierrez G, Gutierrez P, Hadley NJ, Haggerty H, Hagopian S, Hagopian V, Hall RE, Han C, Hansen S, Hauptman JM, Hebert C, Hedin D, Heinmiller JM, Heinson AP, Heintz U, Hildreth MD, Hirosky R, Hobbs JD, Hoeneisen B, Huang J, Huang Y, Iashvili I, Illingworth R, Ito AS, Jaffré M, Jain S, Jesik R, Johns K, Johnson M, Jonckheere A, Jöstlein H, Juste A, Kahl W, Kahn S, Kajfasz E, Kalinin AM, Karmanov D, Karmgard D, Kehoe R, Kesisoglou S, Khanov A, Kharchilava A, Klima B, Kohli JM, Kostritskiy AV, Kotcher J, Kothari B, Kozelov AV, Kozlovsky EA, Krane J, Krishnaswamy MR, Krivkova P, Krzywdzinski S, Kubantsev M, Kuleshov S, Kulik Y, Kunori S, Kupco A, Kuznetsov VE, Landsberg G, Lee WM, Leflat A, Lehner F, Leonidopoulos C, Li J, Li QZ, Lima JG, Lincoln D, Linn SL, Linnemann J, Lipton R, Lucotte A, Lueking L, Lundstedt C, Luo C, Maciel AK, Madaras RJ, Malyshev VL, Manankov V, Mao HS, Marshall T, Martin MI, Mattingly SE, Mayorov AA, McCarthy R, McMahon T, Melanson HL, Melnitchouk A, Merkin A, Merritt KW, Miao C, Miettinen H, Mihalcea D, Mokhov N, Mondal NK, Montgomery HE, Moore RW, Mutaf YD, Nagy E, Narain M, Narasimham VS, Naumann NA, Neal HA, Negret JP, Nelson S, Nomerotski A, Nunnemann T, O'Neil D, Oguri V, Oshima N, Padley P, Papageorgiou K, Parashar N, Partridge R, Parua N, Patwa A, Peters O, Pétroff P, Piegaia R, Pope BG, Prosper HB, Protopopescu S, Przybycien MB, Qian J, Rajagopalan S, Rapidis PA, Reay NW, Reucroft S, Ridel M, Rijssenbeek M, Rizatdinova F, Rockwell T, Royon C, Rubinov P, Ruchti R, Sabirov BM, Sajot G, Santoro A, Sawyer L, Schamberger RD, Schellman H, Schwartzman A, Shabalina E, Shivpuri RK, Shpakov D, Shupe M, Sidwell RA, Simak V, Sirotenko V, Slattery P, Smith RP, Snow GR, Snow J, Snyder S, Solomon J, Song Y, Sorín V, Sosebee M, Sotnikova N, Soustruznik K, Souza M, Stanton NR, Steinbrück G, Stoker D, Stolin V, Stone A, Stoyanova DA, Strang MA, Strauss M, Strovink M, Stutte L, Sznajder A, Talby M, Taylor W, Tentindo-Repond S, Trippe TG, Turcot AS, Tuts PM, Van Kooten R, Vaniev V, Varelas N, Villeneuve-Seguier F, Volkov AA, Vorobiev AP, Wahl HD, Wang ZM, Warchol J, Watts G, Wayne M, Weerts H, White A, Whiteson D, Wijngaarden DA, Willis S, Wimpenny SJ, Womersley J, Wood DR, Xu Q, Yamada R, Yasuda T, Yatsunenko YA, Yip K, Yu J, Zanabria M, Zhang X, Zhou B, Zhou Z, Zielinski M, Zieminska D, Zieminski A, Zutshi V, Zverev EG, and Zylberstejn A
- Abstract
The standard model of particle physics contains parameters--such as particle masses--whose origins are still unknown and which cannot be predicted, but whose values are constrained through their interactions. In particular, the masses of the top quark (M(t)) and W boson (M(W)) constrain the mass of the long-hypothesized, but thus far not observed, Higgs boson. A precise measurement of M(t) can therefore indicate where to look for the Higgs, and indeed whether the hypothesis of a standard model Higgs is consistent with experimental data. As top quarks are produced in pairs and decay in only about 10(-24) s into various final states, reconstructing their masses from their decay products is very challenging. Here we report a technique that extracts more information from each top-quark event and yields a greatly improved precision (of +/- 5.3 GeV/c2) when compared to previous measurements. When our new result is combined with our published measurement in a complementary decay mode and with the only other measurements available, the new world average for M(t) becomes 178.0 +/- 4.3 GeV/c2. As a result, the most likely Higgs mass increases from the experimentally excluded value of 96 to 117 GeV/c2, which is beyond current experimental sensitivity. The upper limit on the Higgs mass at the 95% confidence level is raised from 219 to 251 GeV/c2.
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- 2004
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