New paradigm for precision top physics: Weighing the top with energy correlators

Autor(en)
Jack Holguin, Ian Moult, Aditya Pathak, Massimiliano Procura
Abstrakt

Final states in collider experiments are characterized by correlation functions, (E(n→1)⋯E(n→k)), of the energy flow operator E(n→i). We show that the top quark imprints itself as a peak in the three-point correlator at an angle ζ∼mt2/pT2, with mt the top quark mass and pT its transverse momentum, providing access to one of the most important parameters of the Standard Model in one of the simplest field theoretical observables. Our analysis provides the first step toward a new paradigm for a precise top-mass determination that is, for the first time, highly insensitive to soft physics and underlying event contamination whilst remaining directly calculable from the Standard Model Lagrangian.

Organisation(en)
Teilchenphysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Yale University, University of Manchester
Journal
Physical Review D
Band
107
Anzahl der Seiten
14
ISSN
2470-0010
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2201.08393
Publikationsdatum
06-2023
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103024 Quantenfeldtheorie, 103034 Teilchenphysik
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/new-paradigm-for-precision-top-physics-weighing-the-top-with-energy-correlators(02eb5c3a-68e9-438e-a29d-156c5c804346).html