Determination of the top-quark pole mass using $ t\overline{t} $ + 1-jet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 7 TeV pp collisions

(2015) Journal of High Energy Physics — Vol. 10 (2015)

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The normalized differential cross section for top-quark pair production in association with at least one jet is studied as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the $ t\overline{t} $ + 1-jet system. This distribution can be used for a precise determination of the top-quark mass since gluon radiation depends on the mass of the quarks. The experimental analysis is based on proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb$^{−1}$. The selected events were identified using the lepton+jets top-quark-pair decay channel, where lepton refers to either an electron or a muon. The observed distribution is compared to a theoretical prediction at next-to-leading-order accuracy in quantum chromodynamics using the pole-mass scheme. With this method, the measured value of the top-quark pole mass, m$_{t}^{pole}$ , is: $ {m}_t^{\mathrm{pole}}=173.7\pm 1.5\left(\mathrm{stat}.\right)\pm 1.4{\left(\mathrm{syst}.\right)}_{-0.5}^{+1.0}\left(\mathrm{theory}\right)\mathrm{GeV}. $
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Tanasijczuk, A. J., ATLAS, & et al. (2015). Determination of the top-quark pole mass using $ t\overline{t} $ + 1-jet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 7 TeV pp collisions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)121 (Original work published 2015)