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Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider
T. Aaltonen, V. M. Abazov, B. Abbott, B. S. Acharya, M. Adams, T. Adams, G. D. Alexeev, G. Alkhazov, B. Álvarez González, G. Alverson, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antoš, G. Apollinari, J. A. Appel, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, J. Asaadi, W. Ashmanskas, A. Askew, S. Atkins, B. Auerbach, K. Augsten, A. Aurisano, C. Ávila, F. Azfar, F. Badaud, W. Badgett, T. Bae, L. Bagby, B. Baldin, D. V. Bandurin, S. Banerjee, A. Barbaro‐Galtieri, E. Barberis, P. Baringer, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, P. Barria, J. F. Bartlett, P. Bartos, U. Bassler, M. Bauce, V. Bazterra, A. Bean, F. Bedeschi, M. Begalli, S. Behari, L. Bellantoni, G. Bellettini, J. Bellinger, D. Benjamin, A. Beretvas, S. B. Beri, G. Bernardi, R. Bernhard, I. A. Bertram, M. Besançon, R. Beuselinck, P. C. Bhat, S. Bhatia, V. Bhatnagar, A. Bhatti, D. Bisello, I. Bizjak, K. R. Bland, G. Blazey, S. Blessing, K. Bloom, B. Blumenfeld, A. Bocci, A. Bodek, A. Boehnlein, D. Boline, E. Boos, G. Borissov, D. Bortoletto, T. 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Bibliographic record
VenuePhysical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityInstitute of Particle PhysicsSimon Fraser UniversityUniversity of TorontoTRIUMF
FundersInstitut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des ParticulesScience and Technology Facilities CouncilFundação para o Desenvolvimento da UNESPNational Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueU.S. Department of EnergyVetenskapsrådetConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e TecnológicoBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungRussian Foundation for Basic ResearchDepartamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Science CouncilAlfred P. Sloan FoundationFundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de JaneiroGrantová Agentura České RepublikyDepartment of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, IndiaMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and TechnologyNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungFermilabScience Foundation IrelandNational Science Foundation
KeywordsPhysicsParticle physicsTop quarkTevatronNuclear physicsColliderQuarkBottom quarkLarge Hadron Collider
Abstract
The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a $W$ boson and a bottom quark. Using top-antitop pairs at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the CDF and D0 Collaborations have measured the top quark's mass in different final states for integrated luminosities of up to $5.8\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. This paper reports on a combination of these measurements that results in a more precise value of the mass than any individual decay channel can provide. It describes the treatment of the systematic uncertainties and their correlations. The mass value determined is $173.18\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.56\text{ }(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.75\text{ }(\mathrm{syst})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$ or $173.18\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.94\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$, which has a precision of $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.54%$, making this the most precise determination of the top-quark mass.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Meta-analysis · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.015
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designMeta-analysis
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".
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Published2012
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