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The dependence of the top-quark mass measurement in top-quark production on the parton distribution functions is explored through the differential distribution of the invariant mass of the top-antitop system in top-quark pair production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-16 Jason Gombas , Jarrett Fein , Sara Sawford , Reinhard Schwienhorst

The ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have performed a variety of measurements of the top quark mass, taking advantage of the abundant production of top quarks at the LHC. The most recent measurements are reported here, based on data collected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-22 Andrea Castro

We consider constraints on models in which a top quark mass is generated through unenhanced extended technicolor interactions. The deviation in the $\rho$ parameter from unity and $B$--$\overline{B}$ mixing could be large, but given the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 L. Randall

A new set of measurements of the top quark mass are presented, based on the proton-proton data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV corresponding to a luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. The top quark mass is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-15 CMS Collaboration

Experimental measurements of the properties of the top quark have improved and will continue to improve significantly, with the excellent operation of the CDF and D0 experiments and the Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider at the Fermi National…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-22 Evelyn J. Thomson

In 2004 the matrix element method was used in a pioneering work by the Tevatron experiment D0 to determine the top-quark mass from a handful of events. Since then the method has been matured into a powerful analysis tool. While the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Till Martini , Turan Nuraliyev , Peter Uwer

Event generators play an important role in all physics programs at the Large Hadron Collider and beyond. Dedicated efforts are required to tune the parameters of event generators to accurately describe data. There are many tuning methods…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Jaffae Schroff , Xiangyang Ju

The study of heavy-light meson masses should provide a way to determine renormalized quark masses and other properties of heavy-light mesons. In the context of lattice QCD, for example, it is possible to calculate hadronic quantities for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 N. Brambilla , J. Komijani , A. S. Kronfeld , A. Vairo

We report two measurements of the top quark mass M_top using the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in a 318 pb^-1 data sample observed in the lepton + jets final state. One method uses an event-based likelihood technique resulting in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 CDF Collaboration

We report a measurement of the top quark mass using events collected by the CDF II Detector from ppbar collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. We calculate a likelihood function for the top mass in events that are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 CDF Collaboration

We compute the top quark threshold contributions to the $\gamma\gamma$ production at the LHC. They appear when the invariant mass of the photon pair, $M_{\gamma\gamma}$ just exceeds two times the mass of the top quark and induce some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-13 Shashikant R. Dugad , Pankaj Jain , Subhadip Mitra , Prasenjit Sanyal , Ravindra K. Verma

Measurements of the top-quark mass employing alternative techniques are presented, performed by the D0 and CDF collaborations at the Tevatron as well as the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. The alternative methods presented include…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-01 Stefanie Adomeit

Recently the full O(alpha_S^5 m, alpha_S^5 m log(alpha_S)) correction to the heavy quarkonium 1S energy level has been computed (except the a_3-term in the QCD potential). We point out that the full correction (including the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Y. Kiyo , Y. Sumino

We present an indirect determination of the top-quark pole mass $m_t$ within a global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the public NNPDF framework. We consider a wide range of measurements, including both single-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard D. Ball , Jaco ter Hoeve , Roy Stegeman

The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of t t-bar candidate events with one electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state, collected by CMS in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC. A total of 5174 candidate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-19 The CMS Collaboration

The threshold scan at future lepton colliders is the most precise known method to determine the top quark mass (well below 100 MeV), a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model that co-determines the stability properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-12 Jürgen Reuter , Bijan Chokoufé Nejad , Andre Hoang , Wolfgang Kilian , Maximilian Stahlhofen , Thomas Teubner , Christian Weiss

The CMS programme of indirect searches in the top-quark sector interprets precision measurements in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. These proceedings summarize recent CMS results highlighted in the TOP2025 talk:…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-12 Andrea Piccinelli

The top quark was discovered in 1995. The top quark mass is now well measured at the Tevatron, with uncertainty getting below 1% of the top mass. The world average from last year was 170.9 $\pm$ 1.8 GeV/$c^2$. The new CDF measurement is 172…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-05-16 Yen-Chu Chen

The precise measurement of the top quark mass, which is a fundamental SM parameter, constitutes one of the main goals of the LHC top physics program. One approach to measure this quantity uses the $\rho_\mathrm{s}$ distribution, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Katharina Voß , Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Sven-Olaf Moch

We summarize the top-quark mass measurements from the CDF and D0 experiments at Fermilab. We combine published Run I (1992-1996) measurements with the most recent preliminary Run II (2001-present) measurements using up to 3.6 fb-1 of data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Tevatron Electroweak Working Group