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Weight function method for precise determination of top quark mass at Large Hadron Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-09 v3

Abstract

We propose a new method to measure a theoretically well-defined top quark mass at the LHC. This method is based on the "weight function method," which we proposed in our preceding paper. It requires only lepton energy distribution and is basically independent of the production process of the top quark. We perform a simulation analysis of the top quark mass reconstruction with ttˉt\bar{t} pair production and lepton+jets decay channel at the leading order. The estimated statistical error of the top quark mass is about 0.40.4 GeV with an integrated luminosity of 100100 fb1^{-1} at s=14\sqrt{s}=14 TeV. We also estimate some of the major systematic uncertainties and find that they are under good control.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2395,
  title  = {Weight function method for precise determination of top quark mass at Large Hadron Collider},
  author = {Sayaka Kawabata and Yasuhiro Shimizu and Yukinari Sumino and Hiroshi Yokoya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2395},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures, version to appear in PLB

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