Boosted top quarks in the peak region with N<sup>3</sup>LL resummation
- Author(s)
- Brad Bachu, Andre H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Aditya Pathak, Iain W. Stewart
- Abstract
We present results for the 2-jettiness differential distribution for boosted top quark pairs produced in e+e collisions in the peak region accounting for QCD large-logarithm resummation at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order and fixed-order corrections to matrix elements at next-to-next-to-leading order calculated in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory and boosted heavy quark effective theory. Electroweak and finite-width effects are included at leading order. We study the perturbative convergence of the cross section in the pole and MSR mass schemes, with and without soft gap subtractions. We find that there is a partial cancellation between the pole mass and soft function renormalons. When renormalon subtractions concerning the top mass and the soft function are implemented, the perturbative uncertainties are, however, systematically smaller and an improvement in the stability of the peak position is observed. We find that the top MSR mass may be determined with perturbative uncertainties well below 100 MeV from the peak position of the 2-jettiness distribution. This result has important applications for Monte Carlo top quark mass calibrations.
- Organisation(s)
- Particle Physics, Research Platform Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universidad de Salamanca, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Manchester, Princeton University
- Journal
- Physical Review D
- Volume
- 104
- No. of pages
- 29
- ISSN
- 2470-0010
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.014026
- Publication date
- 07-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103034 Particle physics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/boosted-top-quarks-in-the-peak-region-with-n3ll-resummation(039e0f80-cbf1-432a-a8f9-8642fddbe86b).html