Speaker
Jacob Linacre
(University of Oxford)
Description
We present a top quark mass measurement using ttbar candidate events for the lepton+jets decay channel from ppbar collisions at 1.96 TeV at CDF. The top quark mass is extracted by employing an unbinned maximum likelihood method using per-event probability density functions calculated using signal (ttbar) and background (W+jets) matrix elements, as well as a set of parameterised jet-to-parton mapping functions. The likelihood function is maximised with respect to the top quark mass, the fraction of signal events, and the jet energy scale correction, which is constrained in-situ via the mass of the hadronic W boson.
Primary author
Jacob Linacre
(University of Oxford)
