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Determination of the top quark mass circa 2013: methods, subtleties, perspectives

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present an up-to-date overview of the problem of top quark mass determination. We assess the need for precision in the top mass extraction in the LHC era together with the main theoretical and experimental issues arising in precision top mass determination. We collect and document existing results on top mass determination at hadron colliders and map the prospects for future precision top mass determination at e+e- colliders. We present a collection of estimates for the ultimate precision of various methods for top quark mass extraction at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0799,
  title  = {Determination of the top quark mass circa 2013: methods, subtleties, perspectives},
  author = {Aurelio Juste and Sonny Mantry and Alexander Mitov and Alexander Penin and Peter Skands and Erich Varnes and Marcel Vos and Stephen Wimpenny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0799},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages. Snowmass White Paper