Top quark mass calibration for Monte-Carlo event generators

Author(s)
Mathias Butenschoen, Bahman Dehnadi, André H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Moritz Preisser, Iain W. Stewart
Abstract

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.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics, Research Platform Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics
External organisation(s)
Universität Hamburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Journal
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Volume
265
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22323/1.265.0153
Publication date
2016
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103034 Particle physics, 103012 High energy physics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/top-quark-mass-calibration-for-montecarlo-event-generators(ea3ad79e-80c8-44d9-b14d-3f663b976905).html