Heavy Quark Masses from Jets using Effective Field Theory

Funding Agency: FWF, Der Wissenschaftsfonds

Project Number:  FWF-P28535-N27

Project Start: June 20th, 2016

Project End: June 19th, 2021

Project Participants: Andre H. Hoang (PI), Adithia Pathak (postdoc), Bahman Dehnadi (PhD), Christopher Lepenik (PhD), Daniel Samitz (PhD), Oliver Jin (Master)

Project Description: The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle and weighs approximately the same as a single gold atom. The top quark mass is an essential input parameter for many predictions in particle physics, and it also plays an important role in the understanding of the stability of the vacuum in which we and our universe exist. Currently the most precise experimental measurements of the top quark mass are made at the Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC) and are obtained from determinations of the top mass parameter in the Monte-Carlo event generator used for the experimental analyses using fits to kinematic distributions. While Monte-Carlo event generators are very versatile tools to simulate what happens after the protons at the LHC collide, their theoretical precision is relatively limited. As a consequence, prior to the project, the exact relation of the Monte-Carlo top mass parameter to a quantum-field-theoretically well-defined top quark mass was unknown, and the interpretation of the previously mentioned measurements was limited.

To remedy this situation the project has made two important contributions. First, it has provided important results to increase the precision of the theoretical predictions of jet mass related event-shape distributions, which are highly sensitive to the top quark, and to clarify a number of open conceptual issues that are relevant for the understanding of the field theoretic methods to make such systematic predictions. This included a complete second order calculation of the massive quark jet function, a high-precision analysis of the relation between different quark mass renormalisation schemes, the study of different conventions to define quark mass sensitive event shapes and the up-to-date most precise calculation of the jet mass distribution in the peak region where the mass sensitivity is maximal. Furthermore, for the first time so-called grooming techniques have been accounted for in the theoretical description of the mass distribution for top quark initiated jets. The grooming allows to apply the results also for the collisions at the Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC). Second, a calibration procedure was developed which allows to numerically relate the Monte-Carlo top quark mass parameter and theoretically well-defined top quark mass schemes by fitting the theoretical predictions of the jet mass distribution to Monte-Carlo pseudo data. This procedure was first developed for electron-positron collisions and then extended to the proton-proton collisions a the LHC in cooperation with the LHC-ATLAS collaboration.

Publications:

Project Publications (peer reviewed)

Top Quark Mass Calibration for Monte Carlo Event Generators
Butenschoen, M., Dehnadi, B., Hoang, A. H., Mateu, V., Preisser, M. & Stewart, I. W.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 117 (2016) no.23, 232001 (2016-11-29)
IFT-UAM-CSIC-16-069, FTUAM-16-28, MIT-CTP-4820, UWTHPH-2016-13, DESY-16-150, DESY --16-150
e-Print: arXiv:1608.01318 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.232001

On the Light Massive Flavor Dependence of the Large Order Asymptotic Behavior and the Ambiguity of the Pole Mass
Hoang, A. H., Lepenik, C. & Preißer, M.
JHEP 1709 (2017) 099 (2017-09-20)
UWTHPH-2017-13, MIT-CTP-4915
e-Print: arXiv:1706.08526 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2017)099

The MSR mass and the O(ΛQCD) renormalon sum rule
Hoang, A. H., Jain, A., Lepenik, C., Mateu, V., Preisser, M., Scimemi, I. & Stewart, I. W.
JHEP 1804 (2018) 003 (2018-04-03)
UWTHPH-2017-6, MIT-CTP-4896, IFT-UAM-CSIC-17-034, UWThPh-2017-6, MIT-CTP 4896, IFT-UAM/CSIC-17-034
e-Print: arXiv:1704.01580 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2018)003

Nonperturbative Corrections to Soft Drop Jet Mass
Hoang, A.H:; Mantry, S.; Pathak, A.; Stewart, I.W.
JHEP 1912 (2019) 002 (2019-12-02)
MIT-CTP 5086, UWThPh-2019-15
e-Print: arXiv:1906.11843 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2019)002

Two-Loop Massive Quark Jet Functions in SCET
Hoang, A.H.; Lepenik, C.; Stahlhofen, M.
Published in JHEP 1908 (2019) 112
UWThPh-2019-13, MITP-19-025, MITP/19-025
e-Print: arXiv:1904.12839 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2019)112

Extracting a Short Distance Top Mass with Light Grooming
Hoang, A.H.; Mantry, S.; Pathak, A.; Stewart, I.W.
Phys.Rev. D100 (2019) no.7, 074021 (2019-10-22)
MIT-CTP 4923, UWThPh-2017-25, MIT-CTP-4923, UWTHPH-2017-25
e-Print: arXiv:1708.02586 [hep-ph]  | DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.074021

NLO Massive Event-Shape Differential and Cumulative Distributions
Lepenik, C. & Mateu, V.
JHEP 2003 (2020) 024 (2020-03-04)
IFT-UAM/CSIC-19-149, UWThPh-2019-34
e-Print: arXiv:1912.08211 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)024

Top quark mass measurement in radiative events at electron-positron colliders
Boronat, M., Fullana, E., Fuster, J., Gomis, P., Hoang, A. H., Widl, A., Mateu, V. & Vos, M.
CLICdp-PUB-2019-005, IFIC-19-036, IFT-UAM/CSIC-19-122, UWThPh 2019-26, UWThPh 2019-26
e-Print: arXiv:1912.01275 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135353

Massive event-shape distributions at N2LL
Bris, A., Mateu, V. & Preisser, M.
Journal of High Energy Physics. 9, 58 p., 132.
e-Print: 2006.06383 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2020)132

Boosted top quarks in the peak region with N3LL resummation
Bachu, B., Hoang, A.H., Mateu, V., Pathak, A. & Stewart, I.W.
Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 1, 014026
MIT-CTP 5237; UWThPh-2020-24; IFT-UAM/CSIC-20-134; MAN/HEP/2020/012
e-Print: 2012.12304 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.014026

REvolver: Automated running and matching of couplings and masses in QCD
Bachu, B., Hoang, Hoang, A.H., Lepenik, Ch., Mateu & V.
Comput.Phys.Commun. 270 (2022) 108145
UWThPh-2020-18, IFT-UAM/CSIC-21-5
e-Print: 2102.01085 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108145

mb​ at mH​: the running bottom quark mass and the Higgs boson
Aparisi, J., Fuster, J., Hoang, A.H., Irles, A., Lepenik, Ch., Rodrigo, G., Spira, M., Tairafune, S., Vos, M., Yamamoto, H. & Yonamine, R.
e-Print: 2110.10202 [hep-ph]

What is the Top Quark Mass?
Hoang, A.H.
Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci. 70 (2020) 225-255
UWThPh-2020-1
e-Print: 2004.12915 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nucl-101918-023530


Conference Proceedings articles related to the project:

Calibration of the top quark mass for Monte-Carlo event generators
Butenschön, M., Dehnadi, B., Hoang, A. H., Mateu, V., Preisser, M. & Stewart, I. W.
19 Apr 2017, in : Pos - Proceedings of Science. 282, 8 S., 698.
DOIs: 10.22323/1.282.0698

Summing logarithms and factorization for massive quark initiated jets and the Pythia top quark mass
Butenschön, M.; Dehnadi, B.; Hoang, A.H.; Mateu, V.; Preisser, M.; Stewart, I.W.
PoS LL2016 (2016) 066
Contribution to: LL2016, 066 (proceedings)
DOI: 10.22323/1.260.0066

Top quark mass calibration for Monte-Carlo event generators
Butenschoen, M., Dehnadi, B., Hoang, A. H., Mateu, V., Preisser, M. & Stewart, I. W.
PoS DIS2016 (2016) 153 SISSA (2016-09-12)
Contribution to: DIS 2016, 153 (Proceedings)
DOI: 10.22323/1.265.0153

On the Light Massive Flavor Dependence of the Top Quark Mass
Hoang, A. H., Lepenik, C. & Preißer, M.
EPJ Web Conf. 158 (2017)
Contribution to: QFTHEP 2017, 051 (Proceedings)
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201715804005

On the Light Massive Flavor Dependence of the Top Quark Mass
Hoang, A. H., Lepenik, C. & Preißer, M.
PoS RADCOR2017 (2018) 051 SISSA (2018-03-08)
Contribution to: RADCOR 2017, 051 (Proceedings)
UWTHPH-2018-6
e-Print: arXiv:1802.04334 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.22323/1.290.0051

Top quark mass calibration for Monte-Carlo event generators
Butenschön, M., Dehnadi, B., Hoang, A.H., Mateu, V., Preisser, M. & Stewart, I.W.
PoS Hadron2017 (2018) 189
Contribution to: HADRON 2017, 189 (Proceedings)
DOI: 10.22323/1.310.0189

Monte Carlo Top Quark Mass Calibration
Dehnadi, B., Hoang, A.H., Mateu, V., Preisser, M. Stewart & I.W.
PoS RADCOR2017 (2018) 062
Contribution to: RADCOR 2017, 051 (Proceedings)
SI-HEP-2018-10, IFT-UAM/CSIC-18-024, MIT-CTP/4990, UWTHPH 2018-11, IFT-UAM-CSIC-18-024, MIT-CTP-4990, UWTHPH-2018-11
e-Print: arXiv:1803.02321 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.22323/1.290.0062


PhD theses related to the project:

Heavy quark mass determinations with sum rules and jets
Dehnadi, Bahman
(2016)
DOI: 10.25365/thesis.42936

Jet shapes with massive quarks for e+e--annihilation
Preißer, Moritz
(2018)
DOI: 10.25365/thesis.56440


CERN-Yellow report with Chapter 6.5 being related to the project:

Report from Working Group 1 : Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHCn
Azzi, P. and others
Part of Report on the Physics at the HL-LHC,and Perspectives for the HE-LHC, 1-220
CERN Yellow Rep.Monogr. 7 (2019) 1-220
CERN-LPCC-2018-03
e-Print: arXiv:1902.04070 [hep-ph] | DOI: 10.23731/CYRM-2019-007.1


LHC-ATLAS public note related to the project:

tA precise interpretation for the top quark mass parameter in ATLAS Monte Carlo simulation
institution: CERN
collaboration: ATLAS Collaboration
Report number: ATL-PHYS-PUB-2021-034