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Measurement of the top-quark mass using decays with a J/ψ meson at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3
  • Department for Physics and Technology
  • University of Bergen
  • University of Oklahoma
  • New York University Abu Dhabi
  • School of Agriculture and Science
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
  • University of South Africa
  • Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
  • University of Pretoria
  • University of Zululand
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos
  • University of Granada
  • CERN

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Abstract

The top-quark mass is measured using top-quark decays producing an isolated lepton and J/ψ meson reconstructed in its μ+μ− decay mode. The data sample was recorded with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The measurement is based on the invariant mass m(ℓμ+μ−) of the system made of the isolated lepton ℓ from the W boson decay and the non-isolated μ+μ− pair from a J/ψ decay of a b-hadron, exploiting its sensitivity to the top-quark mass. An unbinned maximum-likelihood fit to the m(ℓμ+μ−) distribution is performed to extract the top-quark mass. The top-quark mass is measured to be mtop = 172.17 ± 0.80 (stat) ± 0.81 (syst) ± 1.07 (recoil) GeV, with a total uncertainty of 1.56 GeV. The third uncertainty arises from changing the dipole parton shower gluon-recoil scheme used in top-quark decays.

Original languageEnglish
Article number99
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2026
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2026

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Top Physics

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