Summary of CDF Top Mass Results - March 2009

Summary of the CDF top mass measurements and their combination as of March 2009. We combine published results from Run-I (1992-1996) with the most recent preliminary and published Run-II (2001-present) measurements using up to 3.2 fb-1 of data. Taking correlated uncertainties properly into account the resulting preliminary CDF average mass of the top quark is

Mtop = 172.6 ± 0.9 (stat) ± 1.2 (syst) GeV/c2

which corresponds to a total uncertainty of 1.5 GeV/c2, or equivalently to a 0.85% precision.

More information can be found in CDF Note 9714.

References about the individual analyses contributing to this combination can be found from the CDF public page


Previous July 2008 combination

The weight each analysis carries in the CDF combination is shown here.