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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 15(102)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.152001

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Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass with Dilepton Events Selected Using Neuroevolution at CDF

Journal article published in 2009 by J. G. da Costa, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, M. G. Albrow, B. Álvarez González, S. Amerio, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, D. Amide, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, Albrow Mg, J. Antos, A. Anastasso and other authors.
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Abstract

Revised version as published in Phys. Rev. Lett ; We report a measurement of the top quark mass $M_t$ in the dilepton decay channel $t\bar{t}\to b\ell'^{+}ν'_\ell\bar{b}\ell^{-}\bar{\nu}_{\ell}$. Events are selected with a neural network which has been directly optimized for statistical precision in top quark mass using neuroevolution, a technique modeled on biological evolution. The top quark mass is extracted from per-event probability densities that are formed by the convolution of leading order matrix elements and detector resolution functions. The joint probability is the product of the probability densities from 344 candidate events in 2.0 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions collected with the CDF II detector, yielding a measurement of $M_t= 171.2± 2.7(\textrm{stat.})± 2.9(\textrm{syst.})\mathrm{GeV}/c^2$.