Approved CDF Top Group Results
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Top Group Physics Results
mass, properties, single and pair production



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    Channel Description
    (Link to web-page)         		Measurement Integrated Luminosity (pb-1) Date Approved
    Top pair production: cross-section
    All measurements gif and eps (last updated 01/04/2005)
    Selected measurements vs centre-of-mass energy gif and eps
    dilepton lepton+isolated track
    e-e, e-mu, mu-mu     		7.0 + 2.7 - 2.3 (stat) + 1.5 - 1.4 (syst) pb
    8.4 + 3.2 - 2.7 (stat) + 1.6 - 1.2 (syst) pb
    Combine above:
    7.0 + 2.4 - 2.1 (stat) + 1.7 - 1.2 (syst) pb     		200 FINAL 04/22/2004
    PRL 93, 142001 (2004)
    dilepton inclusive 8.6 + 2.5 - 2.4 (stat) +- 1.1 (syst) pb
    ttbar, WW and Z to tautau cross-sections    		 200 06/10/2004
    Conference note
    lepton+jets Neural Net (fit)
    Total transverse energy (fit)     		6.7 +- 1.1 (stat) +- 1.6 (syst) pb
    4.7 +- 1.6 (stat) +- 1.8 (syst) pb    		 193 03/18/2004
    01/29/2004 Conference Note
    lepton+jets Vertex b-tag + lead jet Et (fit) 6.0 +- 1.6 (stat) +- 1.2 (syst) pb 162 FINAL 09/10/2004 Submitted to PRD
    lepton+jets Vertex b-tag
    Double Vertex b-tag I
    		5.6 + 1.2-1.1(stat) + 0.9-0.6(syst) pb
    5.0 + 2.4-1.9(stat) + 1.1-0.8(syst) pb     		162 FINAL 10/14/2004 Submitted to PRD
    lepton+jets Double Vertex b-tag II 8.2 + 2.4 - 2.1 (stat) + 1.8-1.0 (syst) pb 162 07/15/2004 Conference note
    lepton+jets Soft muon b-tag 5.2 + 2.9 - 1.9 (stat) +1.3 - 1.0 (syst) pb 193 UPDATED 12/16/2004 Conference note
    lepton+jets Jet probability b-tag 5.8 + 1.3 - 1.2 (stat) +- 1.3 (syst) pb 162 Conference note
    all-hadronic Vertex b-tag 7.8 +- 2.5 (stat) + 4.7 - 2.3 (syst) pb 165 04/01/2004 Conference note
    Top quark properties
    lepton+jets BR(t->Wb)/BR(t->Wq) 1.11 + 0.21 - 0.19 (stat) + 0.19 -0.13 (syst)
    > 0.62 @ 95% C.L.    		 162 07/29/2004 Conference Note
    dilepton, lepton+jets &sigmadilepton/&sigmalepton+jets 1.45+0.83-0.55 126,108 03/04/2004
    dilepton BR(t->&tau &nub)/BRSM(t->&tau &nub) < 5.0 @ 95% C.L. 193 04/28/2004 Conference note
    dilepton Search for Anomalous Kinematics 1.0-4.5% 193 FINAL 12/10/2004 Submitted to PRL
    lepton+jets Search for a Heavy Fourth Generation t' Quark Observed upper limit vs t' mass 193 06/10/2004 Conference note
    dilepton, lepton+jets Search for Charged Higgs in top decays Limits on BR(t->H+b) 193 Conference note
    W Helicity
    Plain English explanation
    dilepton, lepton+jets
    Run I     		Mlb2 F+ < 0.18 @ 95% C.L. 109 05/2003 Conference note
    dilepton, lepton+jets Lepton Pt spectrum F0 = 0.27 + 0.35 -0.21 (stat)+- 0.17 (syst)
    < 0.88 @ 95% C.L.    		 193, 162 04/15/2004 Conference note
    lepton+jets cos&theta * F0= 0.89 +0.30 -0.34 (stat) +- 0.17 (syst)
    > 0.25 @ 95% C.L.    		 162 08/05/2004
    Conference Note
    Search for Single Top production
    lepton+jets combined t+s channels
    t-channel
    s-channel     		<17.8 pb @ 95% C.L.
    <10.1 pb @ 95% C.L.
    <13.6 pb @ 95% C.L.

    		162 FINAL 10/20/2004 PRD 71 012005 (2005)
    Top quark mass
    Summary
    All CDF measurements gif and eps (last updated 10/14/2004)
    CDF and D0 best gif and eps (last updated 03/08/2005 with new D0 results!)
    lepton+jets Vertex b-tag, Dynamic Likelihood 177.8 + 4.5 -5.0 (stat) +- 6.2 (syst) GeV/c2
    Best measurement so far in Run II!         		162 04/01/2004
    Conference note
    lepton+jets Mreco Template
    Vertex b-tag
    No Vertex b-tag
    Combined 0+1+2tags
    Combined 0+1+more 2tags
    174.9 +7.1-7.7 (stat) +- 6.5 (syst) GeV/c2
    179.1 +10.5-9.5 (stat) +- 8.4 (syst) GeV/c2
    176.7 +6.0-5.4 (stat) +- 7.1 (syst) GeV/c2
    177.2 +4.9-4.7 (stat) +- 6.6 (syst) GeV/c2
    162
    193
    162-193     		04/28/2004 Conference Note
    07/22/2004 Conference Note
    08/12/2004
    lepton+jets Vertex b-tag, multivariate 179.6 +6.4-6.3 (stat) +- 6.8 (syst) GeV/c2 162 05/13/2004 Conference note
    dilepton lepton+isolated track &nu weighting 168.1 + 11.0- 9.8 (stat) +- 8.6 (syst) GeV/c2 200 09/30/2004 Conference note
    dilepton e-e,e-mu,mu-mu Mreco template
    + ttbar Pz    		 176.5 + 17.2- 16.0 (stat) +- 6.9 (syst) GeV/c2 193 08/05/2004 Conference note
    dilepton e-e,e-mu,mu-mu Mreco template
    + &phi of &nu1 and &nu2     		170.0 +- 16.6 (stat) +- 7.4 (syst) GeV/c2 193 09/02/2004 Conference note


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