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Measurement of the top-quark mass using decays with a J/ψ meson at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • School of Agriculture and Science
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Department of Physics
  • University of South Africa
  • Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
  • University of Pretoria
  • University of Zululand
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos
  • University of Granada
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  • University of Oklahoma
  • New York University Abu Dhabi
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  • United States Department of Energy
  • Southern Methodist University
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  • Tel Aviv University
  • New York University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
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  • AGH University of Krakow
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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  • University of California at Santa Cruz
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  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Valencia
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Abstract

The top-quark mass is measured using top-quark decays producing an isolated lepton and J/ψ meson reconstructed in its μ+μ decay mode. The data sample was recorded with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The measurement is based on the invariant mass m(ℓμ+μ) of the system made of the isolated lepton ℓ from the W boson decay and the non-isolated μ+μ pair from a J/ψ decay of a b-hadron, exploiting its sensitivity to the top-quark mass. An unbinned maximum-likelihood fit to the m(ℓμ+μ) distribution is performed to extract the top-quark mass. The top-quark mass is measured to be mtop = 172.17 ± 0.80 (stat) ± 0.81 (syst) ± 1.07 (recoil) GeV, with a total uncertainty of 1.56 GeV. The third uncertainty arises from changing the dipole parton shower gluon-recoil scheme used in top-quark decays.

Original languageEnglish
Article number99
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2026
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2026

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Top Physics

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