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How accurately should the top quark mass be measured in order to test theoretical predictions? A possible answer is presented within a particular theoretical framework, that of top-bottom-tau Yukawa unification in a supersymmetric SO(10)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-02 U. Sarid

In this letter, we evaluate potential of linear $e^+e^-$ colliders to measure the top quark mass in radiative events and in a suitable short-distance scheme. We present a calculation of the differential cross section for production of a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Marça Boronat , Esteban Fullana , Juan Fuster , Pablo Gomis , André Hoang , Vicent Mateu , Marcel Vos , Angelika Widl

Future e^+ e^- linear colliders will enable us to determine the top quark mass with high accuracy from the measurement of the 1S peak position of (remnant of) toponium. The estimated statistical error in this measurement is about 50 MeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kiyo

Measuring the top quark mass in its semileptonic decay mode, $t ->be^+\nu$ ($b -> \mu^- + X$), through the mass distribution of the $e^+$--$\mu^-$ pair has been shown to provide a good measurement of the top quark mass with an uncertainty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Ladinsky

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

I discuss a few selected topics related to the reconstruction of the mass of the top quark at hadron colliders. In particular, the relation between the measured top mass and theoretical definitions, such as the pole or MSbar mass, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennaro Corcella

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

Recent top quark event modelling studies done using CMS proton-proton data collected at a centre of mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV and state-of-the-art theoretical predictions accurate to next-to-leading order QCD interfaced with \PYTHIA and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Efe Yazgan

For standard model (SM) processes involving top quarks, such as top quark-antiquark pair production or single top quark production, the theoretical predictions depend on fundamental parameters of the SM like the top quark mass. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-25 Sebastian Wuchterl

A measurement of the top quark mass is reported in events containing a single top quark produced via the electroweak t channel. The analysis is performed using data from proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-01 CMS Collaboration

We combine the known asymptotic behaviour of the QCD perturbation series expansion, which relates the pole mass of a heavy quark to the MSbar mass, with the exact series coefficients up to the four-loop order to determine the ultimate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Beneke , P. Marquard , P. Nason , M. Steinhauser

We present recent measurements of the top quark mass by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in the $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ lepton+jets, all-hadronic, and dilepton channels. In addition, we present a measurement using a topology enriched…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-12-09 Nathan Mirman

The mass of the top quark M_top is interesting both as a fundamental parameter of the standard model and as an important input to precision electroweak tests. The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) has a robust program of top quark mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Erik Brubaker

Experimental results on top-quark physics obtained at the CMS experiment are reported based on the data recorded at centre-of-mass energy up to 13 TeV. Inclusive and differential cross sections for both top-quark pair and single top-quark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-08-29 Luca Lista

We present a study of the expected precision of the top quark mass determination, measured at a linear e+ e- collider based on CLIC technology. GEANT4-based detector simulation and full event reconstruction including realistic physics and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-28 Katja Seidel , Frank Simon , Michal Tesar , Stephane Poss

Future energy-frontier electron-positron colliders will be capable of high-precision studies of top quark properties. The measurement of the top-pair production cross section around the threshold provides access to the mass of the top quark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-11 Frank Simon

Recent top quark event modeling studies done using LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at centre of mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV and state-of-the-art theoretical predictions are summarized. A new factorized…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 Efe Yazgan

We present the first direct determination of the running top-quark mass based on the total cross section of top-quark pair-production as measured at the Tevatron. Our theory prediction for the cross section includes various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 U. Langenfeld , S. Moch , P. Uwer

It has been shown that the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a systematic way to solve conventional renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities. The scale-fixed predictions for physical observables using the PMC are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-11 Xu-Dong Huang , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Jiang Yan , Zhi-Fei Wu , Hong-Hao Ma

This letter reports a measurement of the top quark mass, M_{top}, in data from p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV corresponding to 2.7 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity at the Fermilab Tevatron using the CDF II detector. Events with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-20 The CDF Collaboration , T. Aaltonen