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- From: sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee Sawyer)
- Subject: Re: TOP in TIME
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:28:00 GMT
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- In article <MATT.93Jan11102448@physics2.berkeley.edu>, matt@physics.berkeley.edu writes...
- >In article <11665@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
- >
- >> The person I asked about this
- >> said they were not even prepared to speculate as to whether seeing this
- >> event indicated a rate consistent with the mass around 130 GeV suggested
- >> by the CERN results. We will probably have to wait a year to know for
- >> sure, although it sounds like the PR has started already.
- >
- >I, however, can speculate. (What else do theorists do?)
- >
- >You can't say much about "rate" from a single event, and you can't
- >even say much from two or three events. (Even assuming, that is, that
- >the D0 event and both CDF events really are top.) However, you can
- >ask this question: if the top has a mass of 130 or 140 GeV, then what
- >is the expected number of events that would be seen with the
- >integrated luminosity that they have at Fermilab?
- >
- >The answer is: considerably less than one. The t-tbar cross section
- >goes down quite steeply as the top mass increases. There's some
- >unceratinty in the cross section (perturbative QCD calculations are
- >difficult), but not a factor-of-ten uncertainty.
- >
- >In other words: in my opinion, it isn't terribly likely that CDF and
- >D0 would be seeing very many 130 GeV top quarks.
- >--
- >Matthew Austern
-
- Sure, which is why for a (background subtracted) rate of N+/-stats
- +/-syst events in L pb-1 of luminosity, the mass is M. Then we say if
- this mass in consistent or not with the LEP results. In other words,
- the other way around from the analysis you did. The LEP constraint on
- the top mass is rather broad, something like +/- 50 GeV, and the
- mean "best fit" value varies from 120 to 170 for Higgs masses from 50
- to 1000 GeV. Here is a table for the cross-section for gg->tt at
- p\bar{p} CMS energy of 1.8 TeV, to one-loop QCD corrections and
- with theoretical uncertainties due mainly to ignorance of the
- gluon structure function :
-
- M_top Sigma
- ---------- ------------
- 100 GeV 90+/-30 pb
- 120 GeV 34+/-11 pb
- 140 GeV 15+/- 4 pb
- 160 GeV 7+/- 2 pb
-
- This from _Review of Top Quark Phenomenology_ by B. Lampe (MPI-Munchen),
- preprint MPI-Ph/92-87.
-
- For around 4 pb-1 of luminosity, and an overall efficiency
- of around 10% (I'm guessing here) 1 or 2 events would be right at
- the edge of the LEP "best fit".
-
- ================
- Lee Sawyer
-
- Dept of Physics
- Univ. of Texas
- at Arlington
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