Measurement of the top-quark pole mass in dileptonic $t\bar{t}+ 1\text{-jet}$ events at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment

TL;DR

This paper measures the top-quark pole mass using dileptonic $t\bar{t}+1$-jet events at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector, employing differential cross-section analysis and unfolding techniques for improved precision.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to extract the top-quark pole mass from $t\bar{t}+1$-jet events using differential cross-section measurements and Bayesian unfolding at 13 TeV.

Findings

Top-quark pole mass measured as 170.7 GeV with uncertainties.

Results are consistent between different theoretical calculations.

Measurement aligns well with previous top-quark mass determinations.

Abstract

A measurement of the top-quark pole mass $m_{t}^\text{pole}$ is presented in $t\bar{t}$ events with an additional jet, $t\bar{t}+1\text{-jet}$, produced in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. The data sample, recorded with the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $140~\text{fb}^{-1}$. Events with one electron and one muon of opposite electric charge in the final state are selected to measure the $t\bar{t}+1\text{-jet}$ differential cross-section as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the $t\bar{t}+1\text{-jet}$ system. Iterative Bayesian Unfolding is used to correct the data to enable comparison with fixed-order calculations at next-to-leading-order accuracy in the strong coupling. The process $pp \to t\bar{t}j$ ($2 \rightarrow 3$), where top quarks are taken as stable particles, and the process $pp \to b\bar{b}l^+\nu l^- \bar{\nu} j$ ($2 \to 7$), which includes top-quark decays to the dilepton final state and off-shell effects, are considered. The top-quark mass is extracted using a $\chi^2$ fit of the unfolded normalized differential cross-section distribution. The results obtained with the $2 \to 3$ and $2 \to 7$ calculations are compatible within theoretical uncertainties, providing an important consistency check. The more precise determination is obtained for the $2 \to 3 $ measurement: $m_{t}^\text{pole}=170.7\pm0.3~(\text{stat.})\pm1.4~(\text{syst.})~\pm 0.3~(\text{scale})~\pm 0.2~(\text{PDF}\oplus\alpha_\text{S})~\text{GeV},$ which is in good agreement with other top-quark mass results.