Measurement of the top-quark mass in t̄t events with lepton+jets final states in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV


Chatrchyan S., Khachatryan V., Sirunyan A., Tumasyan A., Adam W., Aguilo E., ...More

Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.2012, no.12, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 2012 Issue: 12
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep12(2012)105
  • Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Keywords: Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of t̄t candidate events with one electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state, collected by CMS in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV at the LHC. A total of 5174 candidate events is selected from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1. For each event the mass is reconstructed from a kinematic fit of the decay products to a t̄t hypothesis. The top-quark mass is determined simultaneously with the jet energy scale (JES), constrained by the known mass of the W boson in q̄q decays, to be 173.49 ± 0.43 (stat. + JES) ±0.98 (syst.) GeV. © 2012 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.