Weighing the Top with Energy Correlators
- Author(s)
- Massimiliano Procura, Jack Holguin, Ian Moult, Aditya Pathak
- Abstract
Final states in collider experiments are characterized by correlation functions, hE(ñ1)···E(ñk)i, of the energy flow operator E(ñi). We show that the top quark imprints itself as a peak in the three-point correlator at an angle ζ ∼ m2t/p2T, with mt the top quark mass and pT its transverse momentum, thereby providing access to one of the most important parameters of the Standard Model in one of the simplest field theoretical observables. Our analysis represents the first step towards a novel precision 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(s)
- Particle Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Yale University, University of Manchester
- Pages
- 60-66
- No. of pages
- 7
- Publication date
- 2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103034 Particle physics
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/weighing-the-top-with-energy-correlators(2cde56ab-a4c6-418d-b2b1-4c7793407199).html