Study of tp-bar collisions using total transverse energy. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We analyze a sample of W+jet events collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in pp collisions at s=1.8 TeV to study tt production. We employ a simple kinematical variable H, defined as the scalar sum of the transverse energies of the lepton, neutrino, and jets. For events with a W boson and four or more jets, the shape of the H distribution deviates by 3.8 standard deviations from that expected from known backgrounds to tt production. However, this distribution agrees well with a linear combination of background and tt events, the agreement being best for a top mass of 180 GeV/c2. 1995 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Abe, F., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M. G., Amendolia, S. R., Amidei, D., ... Carithers, W.

citation count

  • 19

complete list of authors

  • Abe, F||Akimoto, H||Akopian, A||Albrow, MG||Amendolia, SR||Amidei, D||Antos, J||Anway-Wiese, C||Aota, S||Apollinari, G||Asakawa, T||Ashmanskas, W||Atac, M||Auchincloss, P||Azfar, F||Azzi-Bacchetta, P||Bacchetta, N||Badgett, W||Bagdasarov, S||Bailey, MW||Bao, J||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Bartalini, P||Bauer, G||Baumann, T||Bedeschi, F||Behrends, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Benlloch, J||Bensinger, J||Benton, D||Beretvas, A||Berge, JP||Bertolucci, S||Bhatti, A||Biery, K||Binkley, M||Bisello, D||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bodek, A||Bokhari, W||Bolognesi, V||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Breccia, L||Bromberg, C||Buckley-Geer, E||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Byon-Wagner, A||Byrum, KL||Cammerata, J||Campagnari, C||Campbell, M||Caner, A||Carithers, W

publication date

  • November 1995