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A new method to measure the mass of the top quark at the LHC is presented. This method uses lepton energy distribution and ideally does not depend on the velocity distribution of the top quark. We perform a simulation analysis of the top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-27 Sayaka Kawabata

The top quark mass plays an important role in a variety of discussions both within and beyond the Standard Model. However, a precise determination of a theoretically well-defined top quark mass is still missing. Towards a precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Sayaka Kawabata

We present a new method to measure a theoretically well-defined mass of the top quark at the LHC. This method uses lepton energy distribution and has a boost-invariant nature. We perform a simulation analysis of the top mass reconstruction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-29 Sayaka Kawabata

Current measurements of the top quark mass which have achieved a precision of less than 1 GeV involve a theoretical problem that the definition of the measured mass is ambiguous in perturbation theory. As a possible solution to the problem,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Sayaka Kawabata

We study the determination of the top-quark mass using leptonic observables in t-channel single top-quark production at the LHC. We demonstrate sensitivity of transverse momentum of the charged lepton on the input top-quark mass. We present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Mei Sen Gao , Shu Run Yuan , Jun Gao

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Sayaka Kawabata , Yasuhiro Shimizu , Yukinari Sumino , Hiroshi Yokoya

We explore a possibility of optimization of the method of determination of the top quark mass from $M_{b\ell}$ distribution in semi-leptonic decays $t \to b \ell\nu$ at LHC and a future linear collider (LC). We discover that the systematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 M. L. Nekrasov

We present a new method for the experimental determination of the top quark mass that is based upon the mean distance of travel of b hadrons in top quark events. The dominant systematic uncertainties of this method are not correlated with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-03-23 C. S. Hill , J. R. Incandela , J. M. Lamb

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Aurelio Juste , Sonny Mantry , Alexander Mitov , Alexander Penin , Peter Skands , Erich Varnes , Marcel Vos , Stephen Wimpenny

We investigate the possibility to measure the top quark mass using the collider variable $m_{T2}$ at the LHC experiment. Monte Carlo studies of $m_{T2}$ are performed with the events corresponding to the dilepton decays of $t\bar{t}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Won Sang Cho , Kiwoon Choi , Yeong Gyun Kim , Chan Beom Park

Taking advantage of large top production rates at the LHC, the leptonic final states with J/psi are explored for a precise determination of the top quark mass. The top is partially reconstructed by combining the isolated lepton from the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Avto Kharchilava

We present measurements of the top quark mass using the \mT2, a variable related to the transverse mass in events with two missing particles. We use the template method applied to t\tbar dilepton events produced in p\pbar collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 The CDF Collaboration , T. Aaltonen

A precise measurement of the top quark mass, a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model, is among the most important goals of top quark studies at the Large Hadron Collider. Apart from the standard methods, numerous new observables and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 G. Bevilacqua , H. B. Hartanto , M. Kraus , M. Schulze , M. Worek

Measurements of the top quark mass are presented, obtained from CMS data collected in proton proton collisions at the LHC at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV. The mass of the top quark is measured using several methods and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-07 Simon Spannagel

We demonstrate a new likelihood method for extracting the top quark mass from events of the type ttbar-->bW(l+nu)bW(l+nu) This method estimates the top quark mass correctly from an ensemble of dilepton events. The method proposed by Dalitz…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-12-30 Rajendran Raja

The top quark mass measurements are based either on a direct kinematic reconstruction of the top quark decay products or on indirect measurements, where an observable sensitive to the top quark mass, such as the production cross section, is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-11 Mikael Myllymäki

The mass of the top quark is a fundamental parameter of the standard model and has to be determined experimentally. In these proceedings, I review recent measurements of the top quark mass in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt s=7,~8,$ and 13 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-20 Oleg Brandt

A measurement of the top quark mass (M[t]) in the dileptonic t t-bar decay channel is performed using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data was recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-30 CMS Collaboration

We describe a measurement of the top quark mass using events with two charged leptons collected by the CDF II detector from $p\bar{p}$ collisions with $\sqrt s = 1.96$ TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. The likelihood in top mass is calculated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 A. Abulencia

The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of $\mathrm{t\overline{t}}$ events collected by the CMS detector using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. Events are selected with one isolated muon or…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-15 CMS Collaboration
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