Using the <i>W </i>Boson as a Standard Candle to Reach the Top: Calibrating Energy-Correlator-Based Top Mass Measurements
- Author(s)
- Jack Holguin, Ian Moult, Aditya Pathak, Massimiliano Procura, Robert Schöfbeck, Dennis Schwarz
- Abstract
The top quark mass is a key parameter of the standard model, yet measuring it precisely at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is challenging. Inspired by the use of standard candles in cosmology, we propose a novel energy correlator-based observable, which directly accesses the dimensionless quantity mt/mW. We perform a Monte Carlo study to demonstrate the feasibility of the top mass extraction from Run 2, 3, and High-Luminosity LHC datasets. Our resulting mt can be defined in a well-controlled short-distance mass scheme and exhibits remarkably small uncertainties from nonperturbative effects, as well as insensitivity to parton distribution functions, outlining a roadmap for a record precision measurement at the LHC.
- Organisation(s)
- Particle Physics
- External organisation(s)
- University of Manchester, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Yale University, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume
- 134
- No. of pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.02157
- Publication date
- 06-2025
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103012 High energy physics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/77b1b3a0-9731-43ef-91ea-342b90e151d3