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Measurement of the top-quark pole mass in dileptonic t¯t +1-jet events at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inThe journal of high energy physics, vol. 12, no. 12, 23
Publication date2025
First online date2025-12-03
Abstract

A measurement of the top-quark pole mass $ {m}_t^{\textrm{pole}} $ is presented in $ t\overline{t} $ events with an additional jet, $ t\overline{t} $ + 1-jet, produced in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV. The data sample, recorded with the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb$^{−1}$. Events with one electron and one muon of opposite electric charge in the final state are selected to measure the $ t\overline{t} $ + 1-jet differential cross-section as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the $ t\overline{t} $ + 1-jet system. Iterative Bayesian Unfolding is used to correct the data to enable comparison with fixed-order calculations at next-to-leading-order accuracy in the strong coupling. The process $ pp\to t\overline{t}j\left(2\to 3\right) $, where top quarks are taken as stable particles, and the process $ pp\to b\overline{b}{l}^{+}\nu {l}^{-}\overline{\nu}j\left(2\to 7\right) $, which includes top-quark decays to the dilepton final state and off-shell effects, are considered. The top-quark mass is extracted using a χ$^{2}$ fit of the unfolded normalized differential cross-section distribution. The results obtained with the 2 → 3 and 2 → 7 calculations are compatible within theoretical uncertainties, providing an important consistency check. The more precise determination is obtained for the 2 → 3 measurement: $ {m}_t^{\textrm{pole}}=170.7\pm 0.3\left(\textrm{stat}.\right)\pm 1.4\left(\textrm{syst}.\right)\pm 0.3\left(\textrm{scale}\right)\pm 0.2\left(\textrm{PDF}\oplus {\alpha}_{\textrm{S}}\right) $ GeV, which is in good agreement with other top-quark mass results.[graphic not available: see fulltext]

Keywords
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Top Physics
Funding
  • Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo [1230812]
  • Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo [1240864]
  • Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology [2023YFA1605700]
  • Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology [2023YFA1609300]
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China [12175119]
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China [12275265]
  • Czech Science Foundation [24-11373S]
  • Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [ERC-CZ-LL2327]
  • Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [CZ.02.01.01/00/22\_008/0004632]
  • PRIMUS Research Programme [PRIMUS/21/SCI/017]
  • European Regional Development Fund [SLO ERDF]
  • Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [CHIST-ERA-19-XAI-00]
  • Future Artificial Intelligence Research [PE00000013]
  • Italian Center for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing [ICSC]
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [469666862]
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [CR 312/5-2]
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [396021762]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP22H01227]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP22H04944]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP22KK0227]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP24K23939]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP25H00650]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP25H01291]
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP25K01023]
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [IA102224]
  • Research Council of Norway [314472]
  • Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland [9722]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2021/42/E/ST2/00350]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2023/51/B/ST2/02507]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2022/47/B/ST2/03059]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2019/34/E/ST2/00393]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2022/47/O/ST2/00148]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2023/49/B/ST2/04085]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2023/51/B/ST2/00920]
  • Polish National Science Centre [2024/53/N/ST2/00869]
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation [PCI2022-135018-2]
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation [PID2021-125273NB]
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation [RYC2019-028510-I]
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation [RYC2020-030254-I]
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation [RYC2021-031273-I]
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation [RYC2022-038164-I]
  • Carl Trygger Foundation [CTS 22:2312]
  • Swedish Research Council [2023-04654]
  • Swedish Research Council [2021-03651]
  • Swedish Research Council [2022-03845]
  • Swedish Research Council [2022-04683]
  • Swedish Research Council [2023-03403]
  • Swedish Research Council [2024-05451]
  • Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2018.0458]
  • Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2022.0358]
  • Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2023.0366]
  • Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2020-004]
  • Royal Society [NIF-R1-231091]
  • U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
  • European Commission - REAL-time discovery strategies for DARK matter and dark sector signals at the ATLAS detector with Run-3 LHC data [101002463]
  • European Commission - B-resonance Algorithm using Rare Decays [101116429]
  • European Commission - Turning noise into data: a discovery strategy for new weakly-interacting physics [948254]
  • European Commission - Comprehensive search for new phenomena in the dilepton spectrum at the LHC [101089007]
  • European Commission - Machine learning for Sciences and Humanities [101081355]
  • French National Research Agency (ANR) - Advanced TRacking Algorithms for Particle Physics [ANR-21-CE31-0022]
  • French National Research Agency (ANR) - DiHiggs In VBF Events : Exploring the Higgs boson properties through vector boson fusion HH production [ANR-22-EDIR-0002]
  • Swiss National Science Foundation - Turning noise into data: a discovery strategy for new weakly-interacting physics [194658]
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Measurement of the top-quark pole mass in dileptonic t¯t +1-jet events at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. In: The journal of high energy physics, 2025, vol. 12, n° 12, p. 23. doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2025)023
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