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Measurement of the top quark mass in the tt → lepton+jets and tt → dilepton channels using √s = 7 TeV ATLAS data

  • Atlas Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • CERN
  • Stockholm University
  • The Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • University of Warwick
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • The University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Queen Mary University of London

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Abstract

The top quark mass was measured in the channels tt → lepton+jets and tt → dilepton (lepton = e, μ) based on ATLAS data recorded in 2011. The data were taken at the LHC with a proton–proton centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. The tt → lepton+jets analysis uses a three-dimensional template technique which determines the top quark mass together with a global jet energy scale factor (JSF), and a relative b-to-light-jet energy scale factor (bJSF), where the terms b-jets and light-jets refer to jets originating from b-quarks and u, d, c, s-quarks or gluons, respectively. The analysis of the tt → dilepton channel exploits a one-dimensional template method using the mℓb observable, defined as the average invariant mass of the two lepton+b-jet pairs in each event. The top quark mass is measured to be 172.33 ± 0.75(stat + JSF + bJSF) ± 1.02(syst) GeV, and 173.79 ± 0.54(stat) ± 1.30(syst) GeV in the tt → lepton+jets and tt → dilepton channels, respectively. The combination of the two results yields mtop = 172.99 ± 0.48(stat) ± 0.78(syst) GeV, with a total uncertainty of 0.91 GeV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number330
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume75
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 25 2015

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