Ph.D. Thesis by Kirsten Anne Tollefson

Advisor: Prof. Paul Tipton

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1997

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A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass

Abstract
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Presented here is a measurement of the top quark mass using a sample of t-tbar
events which decay into a charged lepton, a neutrino, and four jets.  This
analysis separates the sample of t-tbar events into non-overlapping subsamples
based on our ability to identify jets which originate from b quark decays. 
This sample was collected in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV with the
Collider Detector at Fermilab, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of
109 +/- 7 pb^-1.  The top quark mass is measured to be 
175.9 +/- 4.8 (stat.) +/- 4.9 (syst.) GeV/c^2.


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