http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/ private thoughts of a physicist and chessplayer Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/#comment-144 dorigo Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:45:32 +0000 https://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/#comment-144 Hi Alejandro, this looks like a good idea... I will bring it to the next collaboration meeting. Hi Alejandro,
this looks like a good idea… I will bring it to the next collaboration meeting.

]]> http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/#comment-143 Alejandro Rivero Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:50:58 +0000 https://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/#comment-143 I was just thinking, given the current precision of Fermi constant, should you experimentalists try to quote the yukawa coupling of top (hmm, 0.991 +- 0.013?) instead of or at the same time that the measured mass in GeV? I understand it is trublesome because it is a model-dependent quantity, but I am starting to be tired of hearing "of order unity" as if it were 7.43 or 0.21 or 1.89. I was just thinking, given the current precision of Fermi constant, should you experimentalists try to quote the yukawa coupling of top (hmm, 0.991 +- 0.013?) instead of or at the same time that the measured mass in GeV? I understand it is trublesome because it is a model-dependent quantity, but I am starting to be tired of hearing “of order unity” as if it were 7.43 or 0.21 or 1.89.

]]> http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/#comment-110 Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » New Top Quark Mass Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:45:17 +0000 https://dorigo.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/new-tevatron-average-of-top-quark-mass-13-total-error/#comment-110 [...] Via Tommaso Dorigo of the CDF collaboration, the news that the Tevatron Electroweak Working Group has released a new analysis of combined CDF and D0 data with the most accurate result so far for the top quark mass: 172.5 +/- 2.3 Gev. Last summer this value was at 174.3 +/- 3.4 Gev (see a posting here), an improvement over the earlier value derived just using Run I data of 178.0 +/- 4.3 Gev. [...] [...] Via Tommaso Dorigo of the CDF collaboration, the news that the Tevatron Electroweak Working Group has released a new analysis of combined CDF and D0 data with the most accurate result so far for the top quark mass: 172.5 +/- 2.3 Gev. Last summer this value was at 174.3 +/- 3.4 Gev (see a posting here), an improvement over the earlier value derived just using Run I data of 178.0 +/- 4.3 Gev. [...]

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