Determination of the top-quark pole mass using t [¯ over t] + 1-jet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 7 TeV pp collisions

The normalized differential cross section for top-quark pair production in association with at least one jet is studied as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the t[¯ over t] + 1-jet system. This distribution can be used for a precise determination of the top-quark mass since gluon ra...

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Main Author: Taylor, Frank E (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature, 2018-08-17T14:11:41Z.
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520 |a The normalized differential cross section for top-quark pair production in association with at least one jet is studied as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the t[¯ over t] + 1-jet system. This distribution can be used for a precise determination of the top-quark mass since gluon radiation depends on the mass of the quarks. The experimental analysis is based on proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb[superscript −1]. The selected events were identified using the lepton+jets top-quark-pair decay channel, where lepton refers to either an electron or a muon. The observed distribution is compared to a theoretical prediction at next-to-leading-order accuracy in quantum chromodynamics using the pole-mass scheme. With this method, the measured value of the top-quark pole mass, m[subscript t[superscript pole]], is:m[superscript pole][subscript t]=173.7±1.5stat.±1.4syst.−0.5+1.0(theory)GeV. This result represents the most precise measurement of the top-quark pole mass to date.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] 
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773 |t Journal of High Energy Physics