Related papers: Precision on the top mass
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…
The experimental status of measurements of the top quark mass is reviewed. After an introduction to the definition of the top quark mass and the production and decay of top quarks, an in-depth comparison of the analysis techniques used in…
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…
I discuss theoretical issues related to the top mass measurements in hadronic collisions.
An overview of precision determinations of the strong coupling constant, as well as the top, bottom and charm quark masses is presented.
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…
The physics impact of a precise determination of the top-quark mass, m_t, at the Linear Collider (LC) is discussed, and the results are compared with the prospective accuracy at the LHC. The importance of a precise knowledge of m_t for…
Precision predictions combined with precise measurements are a major tool in sharpening our understanding of the fundamental laws underlying microscopic as well as macroscopic systems. Here, I present a few remarkable examples covering the…
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…
Does the mass of bodies depend on their velocity? Is the mass additive if separate bodies are joined together to form a composite system? Is the mass of an isolated system conserved? Different teachers of physics and specialists give…
We give tight lower and upper bounds on the expected missing mass for distributions over finite and countably infinite spaces. An essential characterization of the extremal distributions is given. We also provide an extension to totally…
This talk is an overview of prospects for measuring the top mass $m_t$ at present and future colliders. Methods for extracting $m_t$ appropriate to experiments at the Tevatron, Large Hadron Collider, and Next Linear Collider are discussed,…
We analyze different prescriptions for the inclusion of target mass effects in the extraction of parton distributions from the measured structure functions. As a main result, the problem of defining parton distributions in the presence of…
Within the past fifteen years the use of the concept of "relativistic mass" has been on the decline and has been replaced by the concept of "proper mass" (aka "rest mass") - ?simply referred to as "mass" and labeled "m" by its proponents.…
I discuss the theoretical interpretation of the top-quark mass, which is extracted in standard and alternative measurements at the LHC. In particular, I point out that the top mass extracted in analyses relying on the use of Monte Carlo…
Future lepton colliders will have a rich top quark physics program which would add to our understanding of this interesting quark and promise an ultimate precision on the experimental knowledge of top-quark mass. We present possible…
Mass determinations are difficult to obtain and still frequently characterised by deceptively large uncertainties. We review below the various mass estimators used for star clusters of all ages and luminosities. We highlight a few recent…
I briefly overview the methods employed at the LHC to extract the top-quark mass, taking particular care about the theory uncertainty and the dependence on the Monte Carlo hadronization parameters.
Overall, the Standard Model describes electroweak precision data rather well. There are however a few areas of tension (charged current universality, NuTeV, (g-2)_\mu, b quark asymmetries), which I review emphasizing recent theoretical and…
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…