Precision Determination of the Top Quark Mass

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The CDF and D0 collaborations have updated their measurements of the mass of the top quark using proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV produced at the Tevatron.

• The uncertainties in each of the of top-antitop decay channels have been reduced.
• The new Tevatron average for the mass of the top quark based on about 1/fb of data per experiment is 170.9+-1.8GeV/c^2.