Precise measurement of the top-quark mass from lepton + jets events

We measure the mass of the top quark using top-quark pair candidate events in the lepton+jets channel from data corresponding to 1 fb;{-1} of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We use a likelihood technique that reduces the jet energy scale uncertainty by combining an in situ jet energy calibration with the independent constraint on the jet energy scale (JES) from the calibration derived using photon+jets and dijet samples. We find the mass of the top quark to be 171.5+/-1.8(stat.+JES)+/-1.1(syst.) GeV.     

Precise measurement of the top-quark mass in the lepton+jets topology at CDF II

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton plus jets final state (tt-->W(+)bW(-)b-->lnubqq'b). The top-quark mass is extracted using a direct calculation of the probability density that each event corresponds to the tt final state. The probability is a function of both the mass of the top quark and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets, which is constrained in situ by the hadronic W boson mass. Using 167 events observed in 955 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity, we achieve the single most precise measurement of the top-quark mass, 170.8+/-2.2(stat.)+/-1.4(syst.) GeV/c(2).     

Precision top-quark mass measurement in the lepton+jets topology in p p collisions at square root s=1.96 TeV

We report two measurements of the top-quark mass M(top) using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in a 318 pb(-1) data sample of tt events in the lepton+jets final state. One method uses an event-based likelihood technique resulting in M(top) = 173.2(-2.4)(+2.6)(stat) +/- 3.2(syst) GeV/c2 or 173.2(-4.0)(+4.1) GeV/c2. The second method reconstructs a top-quark mass in each event using the measured invariant mass of the hadronically decaying W boson to constrain the jet energy scale to obtain a value for M(top)of 173.5(-3.6)(+3.7)(stat) +/- 1.3(syst) GeV/c2 or 173.5(-3.8)(+3.9) GeV/c2 . We take the latter, which is more precise, as our result.     

Top-quark mass measurement using events with missing transverse energy and jets at CDF

We present a measurement of the top-quark mass using a sample of t ?t events in 5.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity from p ?p collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with √s=1.96 TeV and collected by the CDF II Detector. We select events having large missing transverse energy, and four, five, or six jets with at least one jet tagged as coming from a b quark, and reject events with identified charged leptons. This analysis considers events from the semileptonic t ?t decay channel, including events that contain tau leptons. The measurement is based on a multidimensional template method. We fit the data to signal templates of varying top-quark masses and background templates, and measure a top-quark mass of M(top)=172.32±2.4(stat)±1.0(syst) GeV/c(2).     

On invariants of quark and lepton mass matrices in the Standard Model

In this article I present the motivation for introducing the invariant functions of mass matrices, based on my own work, and give some examples. Since their introduction in 1985, in the framework of the Standard Electroweak Model, they have been used by many authors. Some authors have gone further along this path and have studied the extensions of this concept to frameworks beyond the Standard Model.     

Precise measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel at D0

We measure the top quark mass (m(t)) in p ?p collisions at a center of mass energy √s = 1.96 TeV using dilepton t ?t→W(+)bW(-) ?b→?(+)ν(?)b?(-) ?ν(?) ?b events, where ? denotes an electron, a muon, or a tau that decays leptonically. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb(-1) collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We obtain m(t)=174.0±1.8(stat)±2.4(syst) GeV, which is in agreement with the current world average m(t)=173.3±1.1 GeV. This is currently the most precise measurement of m(t) in the dilepton channel.     

LMA solution to the solar neutrino problem and a phenomenological charged lepton mass matrix

We propose a phenomenological form of the charged lepton mass matrix which extends the idea of a ”lopsided” mass matrix found in the literature. The features of the form are that both the 2-3 and 1-3 elements of the charged lepton mass matrix are of order 1 and that the small elements have a new structure. This form leads to the interesting result that both large atmospheric and solar neutrino mixing can be accounted for by the matrix. Another interesting result of this mass matrix is that it leads to very small 1-3 mixing in the lepton sector and can suppress the branching ratio of under the present experimental limit in the supersymmetric see-saw case. Received: 3 October 2002 / Revised version: 10 November 2002 / Published online: 24 January 2003 RID="a" ID="a" e-mail: bixj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn RID="b" ID="b" e-mail: dyb@itp.ac.cn     

Independent measurement of the top quark mass and the light- and bottom-jet energy scales at hadron colliders

A method for the simultaneous determination of the energy scales for bottom-quark jets and light jets, the jet energy resolution, and the top quark mass at hadron colliders is presented. The method exploits the unique kinematics of events with top-antitop pair production, where one of the top quarks involves a leptonic and one a hadronic boson decay. The paper shows a feasibility study of how this simultaneous measurement can be performed at the upcoming LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS.     

A method to compare quark and gluon jets in $$e^ + e^ - \to q\bar qg$$ hadronisation

The conserved charges of non-abelian gauge theories are systematically investigated in the framework of the manifestly-covariant canonical formalism. An internal-symmetry superalgebra consisting of 4n+5 generators is found in the Landaugauge case of the Yang-Mills theory, wheren denotes the dimension of the gauge group. Likewise, a superalgebra consisting of 4×6+5 generators is found in the internal-Lorentz (local-Lorentz) part of the vierbein formalism of quantum gravity. It is pointed out that there is a complete parallelism between both superalgebras.     

In‐situ temperature calibration below 1 K using the μ+ Knight shift in CMN

We present μ⁺ paramagnetic shift measurements between 12 K and about 65 mK in cerium magnesium nitrate (CMN) to investigate its utility as an in‐situ temperature calibration source for low temperature μSR experiments. CMN is a salt which exhibits Curie‐law susceptibility to temperatures as low as 5 mK. The μ⁺ Knight shift is measured to be -(1.46\pm 0.03)\times 10^-3/T+(0.004\pm 0.02)\times 10^-3, corresponding to a transferred hyperfine field of -39 Oe/\mu_ B. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Uncertainty of the beam energy measurement in the e~+e~- collision using Compton backscattering

The beam energy is measured in the e+e-collision by using Compton backscattering. The uncertainty of this measurement process is studied by virtue of analytical formulas, and the special effects of variant energy spread and energy drift on the systematic uncertainty estimation are also studied with the Monte Carlo sampling technique. These quantitative conclusions are especially important for understanding the uncertainty of the beam energy measurement system.     

Measurement of the gluon fragmentation function and a comparison of the scaling violation in gluon and quark jets

The fragmentation functions of quarks and gluons are measured in various three-jet topologies in Z decays from the full data set collected with the Delphi detector at the Z resonance between 1992 and 1995. The results at different values of transverse momentum-like scales are compared. A parameterization of the quark and gluon fragmentation functions at a fixed reference scale is given. The quark and gluon fragmentation functions show the predicted pattern of scaling violations. The scaling violation for quark jets as a function of a transverse momentum-like scale is in a good agreement with that observed in lower energy annihilation experiments. For gluon jets it appears to be significantly stronger. The scale dependences of the gluon and quark fragmentation functions agree with the prediction of the DGLAP evolution equations from which the colour factor ratio is measured to be: Received: 5 November 1999 / Published online: 25 February 2000     

Precise measuring mass and spin of dark matter particles at ILC via singularities in the single lepton energy spectrum

We consider models, in which stability of Dark Matter particles D is ensured by the conservation of the new quantum number, called D-parity here. Our models contain also charged D-odd particle D ^±. We propose method for precision measuring masses and spin of D-particles via the study of energy distribution of single lepton (e or μ) in the process e ⁺ e ^? → D ⁺ D ^? → DDW ⁺ W ^? with the observable state dijet + μ (or e) + nothing. It is shown that this distribution has kinematically determined singular points (upper edge and kinks or peak). Measuring of their positions allow to determine precisely masses of D and D ^±. After this, even a rough measuring of corresponding cross section allows to determine the spin of D particles.     

有限元法分析不同形状量子点的应变能及弛豫度变化

利用有限元方法研究了不同形状量子点的应变能量分布和弛豫度随着高宽比变化的规律.分析了量子点间距和量子点形状对量子点应变弛豫的影响,定量地讨论了量子点的弛豫度与量子点形状之间的关系.计算结果表明,在不考虑表面能的情况下,当量子点高宽比增加时,弛豫度上升,并且发现平顶金字塔形量子点最先达到稳定;岛间距增大时,量子点内应变能下降,其中立方体形量子点应变能下降最快.研究表明,量子点的弛豫度可以成为控制量子点成岛形状的重要依据. 关键词： 量子点 弛豫度