Next-to-leading order QCD effects and the top quark mass measurements at the LHC

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2010)048zbMATH Open1291.81421arXiv1006.0910OpenAlexW3101967339MaRDI QIDQ2248158FDOQ2248158

Authors: Sandip Biswas, Kirill Melnikov, Markus Schulze 

Publication date: 30 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is anticipated that a number of techniques to measure the top quark mass at the LHC will yield m_top with uncertainties of about 0.5-1 percent. These uncertainties are mostly theoretical; they are usually estimated using parton shower Monte Carlo programs whose reliability at this level of precision is difficult to assess. The goal of this paper is to contrast those estimates with the results of NLO QCD computations for a few observables, often discussed in the context of high-precision top quark mass measurements at the LHC. In particular, we study the NLO QCD corrections to the invariant mass distribution of a charged lepton and a B-meson in lepton+jets channels. In the dilepton channel we investigate the invariant mass distribution of a charged lepton and a b-jet, the average energy of the two leptons and the average energy of the b-jets from top decays.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0910

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zbMATH Keywords

NLO computationshadronic collidersquark masses and SM parameters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Cites Work

• Distributions and correlations for top quark pair production and decay at the Tevatron and LHC
• Jet activity in \(t\bar t\) events and top mass reconstructions at hadron colliders

Cited In (5)

• Jet activity in \(t\bar t\) events and top mass reconstructions at hadron colliders
• On the difference between the pole and the \(\bar{\mathrm{MS}}\) masses of the top quark at the electroweak scale
• Bound-state effects on kinematical distributions of top quarks at hadron colliders
• Tensorial reconstruction at the integrand level
• Fragmentation uncertainties in hadronic observables for top-quark mass measurements

Uses Software

• HERWIG 5.1
• MC@NLO

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