The top-quark mass: challenges in definition and determination
Abstract
The top-quark mass is a parameter of paramount importance in particle physics, playing a crucial role in the electroweak precision tests and in the stability of the Standard Model vacuum. I will discuss the main strategies to extract the top-quark mass at the LHC and the interpretation of the measurements in terms of well-posed top-mass definitions, taking particular care about renormalon ambiguities, progress in Monte Carlo event generators for top physics and theoretical uncertainties.
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@article{arxiv.1903.06574,
title = {The top-quark mass: challenges in definition and determination},
author = {Gennaro Corcella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06574},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
26 pages, 2 figures. Invited review for the research topic `From the Fermi scale to Cosmology' in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, section High-Energy and Astroparticle Physics. Subsection on measurement interpretation expanded, a few references added