Top quark mass calibration for Monte-Carlo event generators

Mathias Butenschoen; Bahman Dehnadi; André H. Hoang; Vicent Mateu; Moritz Preisser; Iain W. Stewart

doi:10.22323/1.265.0153

Top quark mass calibration for Monte-Carlo event generators

Mathias Butenschoen, Bahman Dehnadi, André H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Moritz Preisser, Iain W. Stewart

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The most precise top quark mass measurements use kinematic reconstruction methods, determining the top mass parameter of a Monte Carlo event generator, mMCt. Due to the complicated interplay of hadronization and parton shower dynamics in Monte Carlo event generators, relating mMCt to field theory masses is a non-trivial task. In this talk we present a calibration procedure to determine this relation using hadron level QCD predictions for 2-Jettiness in e+e- annihilation, an observable which has kinematic top mass sensitivity and has a close relation to the invariant mass of the particles coming from the top decay. The theoretical ingredients of the QCD prediction are explained. Fitting e+e- 2-Jettiness calculations at NLL/NNLL order to PYTHIA 8.205, we find that mMCt agrees with the MSR mass at the scale 1 GeV within uncertainties, mMCt ≃ mMSRt;1GeV, but differs from the pole mass by 900/600MeV.

Original language	English
Article number	153
Journal	Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Volume	265
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.265.0153
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2016) - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 11 Apr 2016 → 15 Apr 2016 https://pos.sissa.it/265/

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103034 Particle physics
103012 High energy physics

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Top quark mass calibration for Monte-Carlo event generators

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