Measurement of the top-quark mass using a leptonic invariant mass in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration, Paul Newman

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Abstract

A measurement of the top-quark mass (mt) in the tt̅ → lepton+jets channel is presented, with an experimental technique which exploits semileptonic decays of b-hadrons produced in the top-quark decay chain. The distribution of the invariant mass mℓμ of the lepton, ℓ (with ℓ=e,μ), from the W-boson decay and the muon, μ, originating from the b-hadron decay is reconstructed, and a binned-template profile likelihood fit is performed to extract mt. The measurement is based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1 of √s = 13 TeV pp collisions provided by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded by the ATLAS detector. The measured value of the top-quark mass is mt=174.41±0.39 (stat.)±0.66 (syst.)±0.25 (recoil) GeV, where the third uncertainty arises from changing the PYTHIA8 parton shower gluon-recoil scheme, used in top-quark decays, to a recently developed setup.
Original languageEnglish
Article number19
Number of pages56
JournalJHEP
Volume2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jun 2023

Bibliographical note

32 pages in total, 9 figures, 6 tables, to be submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at: https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2017-17/

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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