Measurement of the top quark mass in the t t bar →dilepton channel from √{ s} = 8 TeV ATLAS data

Aaboud, M. and Aad, G. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Abdinov, O. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2016) Measurement of the top quark mass in the t t bar →dilepton channel from √{ s} = 8 TeV ATLAS data. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 761. pp. 350-371. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

The top quark mass is measured in the t¯t → dilepton channel (lepton = e, μ) using ATLAS data recorded in the year 2012 at the LHC. The data were taken at a proton–proton centre-of- mass energy of √s = 8 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 20.2 fb−1. Exploiting the template method, and using the distribution of invariant masses of lepton–b-jet pairs, the top quark mass is measured to be mtop = 172.99 ± 0.41 (stat) ± 0.74 (syst) GeV, with a total uncertainty of 0.84 GeV. Finally, a combination with previous ATLAS mtop measurements from √s = 7 TeV data in the t¯t → dilepton and t¯t → lepton+jets channels results in mtop = 172.84 ± 0.34 (stat) ± 0.61 (syst) GeV, with a total uncertainty of 0.70 GeV.

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