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Prospect of measuring the top quark mass through energy correlators

M. Xiao, Y. Ye, Xinyu Zhu

2024Journal of High Energy Physics15 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract Reaching a high precision of the top quark mass is an important task of the Large Hadron Collider. We perform a feasibility study of measuring the top quark mass through the three-point energy correlator. The expected sensitivity of the top quark mass in the boosted regime is presented. We further introduce its application to the low top p T regime and demonstrate that both the W boson and the top quark masses could be extracted from this single observable. Compared to traditional observables, the energy correlator shows robustness to uncertainties that usually dominate experimental measurements and provides a promising way to improve experimental precision.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsTop quarkParticle physicsNuclear physicsQuarkEnergy (signal processing)Quantum electrodynamicsQuantum mechanicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesMedical Imaging Techniques and ApplicationsQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions