# Reducing the Top Quark Mass Uncertainty with Jet Grooming

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how jet grooming techniques can significantly reduce the systematic uncertainties in top quark mass measurements, especially when calibrated to the W boson mass, thereby improving measurement precision.

## Contribution

The study demonstrates that applying jet grooming procedures like soft-drop and trimming can substantially lower the Monte Carlo mass ambiguity and associated uncertainties in top quark mass measurements.

## Key findings

- Jet grooming reduces top mass uncertainty by up to 60%.
- Calibration to W mass further decreases systematic errors.
- Jet grooming enhances robustness against underlying event effects.

## Abstract

The measurement of the top quark mass has large systematic uncertainties coming from the Monte Carlo simulations that are used to match theory and experiment. We explore how much that uncertainty can be reduced by using jet grooming procedures. We estimate the inherent ambiguity in what is meant by Monte Carlo mass to be around 530 MeV without any corrections. This uncertainty can be reduced by 60% to 200 MeV by calibrating to the W mass and a further 33% to 140 MeV by applying soft-drop jet grooming (or by 20% more to 170 MeV with trimming). At e+e- colliders, the associated uncertainty is around 110 MeV, reducing to 50 MeV after calibrating to the W mass. By analyzing the tuning parameters, we conclude that the importance of jet grooming after calibrating to the W mass is to reduce sensitivity to the underlying event.