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A precision measurement of the mass of the top quark

机译:精确测量顶夸克的质量

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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)(1) constrain the mass of the long-hypothesized, but thus far not observed, Higgs boson. A precise measurement of Mt 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/c(2)) when compared to previous measurements(2). When our new result is combined with our published measurement in a complementary decay mode(3) and with the only other measurements available(2), the new world average for M-t becomes(4) 178.0 +/- 4.3 GeV/c(2). As a result, the most likely Higgs mass increases from the experimentally excluded(5) value(6) of 96 to 117GeV/c(2), 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/c(2).
机译:粒子物理学的标准模型包含诸如粒子质量的参数-其起源仍是未知的且无法预测,但其值受它们的相互作用约束。特别是,顶夸克(M-t)和W玻色子(M-W)(1)的质量限制了长假设的希格斯玻色子的质量,但迄今为止尚未观察到。因此,对Mt的精确测量可以指示在何处寻找希格斯,以及实际上标准模型希格斯的假设是否与实验数据一致。由于成对的夸克是成对产生的,并且仅在约10(-24)s内衰减成各种最终状态,因此从其衰减产物重建其质量非常具有挑战性。在这里,我们报告了一种技术,该技术从每个前夸克事件中提取更多信息,并且与以前的测量结果相比,其精度大大提高(+/- 5.3 GeV / c(2))。当我们的新结果与我们在互补衰变模式下发布的测量结果(3)以及仅有的其他可用测量结果(2)相结合时,Mt的新世界平均值变为(4)178.0 +/- 4.3 GeV / c(2) 。结果,最有可能的希格斯质量从实验排除的(5)值(6)的96增加到117GeV / c(2),这超出了当前的实验灵敏度。 95%置信水平下希格斯质量的上限从219 GeV / c(2)提高到251 GeV / c(2)。

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