Journal of High Energy Physics (Oct 2024)

Prospect of measuring the top quark mass through energy correlators

  • Meng Xiao,
  • Yulei Ye,
  • Xinyu Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)088
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 10
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Abstract 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.

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