Title: Maximal use of kinematic information in single-lepton t tbar events.
Link to paper if available: 
Session of First Preference: Heavy Flavor 
Session of Second Preference: Test of the Standard Model

LP Session: Hadron Machines

Abstract:

 We present a method of analysis that makes maximal use of all
 kinematic information in collider events, and thereby maximizes the
 discrimination between signal and background. The technique involves
 a direct comparison of matrix elements for signal and background. We
 apply the method to t tbar -> lepton+jets production, and
 specifically to the extraction of the mass of the top quark. Compared
 to previous techniques, we note a significant reduction in the
 statistical uncertainty on the extracted mass.

Submitted:  9 April 2001