Observation of Top Quark Production in p-barp Collisions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We establish the existence of the top quark using a 67 pb-1 data sample of pp collisions at s=1.8 TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). Employing techniques similar to those we previously published, we observe a signal consistent with tt decay to WWbb, but inconsistent with the background prediction by 4.8. Additional evidence for the top quark is provided by a peak in the reconstructed mass distribution. We measure the top quark mass to be 1768(stat)10(syst) GeV/c2, and the tt production cross section to be 6.8-2.4+3.6 pb. 1995 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 75.494

author list (cited authors)

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

citation count

  • 1136

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||Brandenburg, G||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

publication date

  • April 1995