Precision determination of the top-quark mass

Abstract

Precision determinations of the top-quark mass require theory predictions with a well-defined mass parameter in a given renormalization scheme. The top-quark's running mass in the MSbar scheme can be extracted with good precision from the total cross section at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The Monte Carlo top-quark mass parameter measured from comparison to events with top-quark decay products is not identical with the pole mass. Its translation to the pole mass scheme introduces an additional uncertainty of the order of 1 GeV.

Presented at Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory 2014, Weimar, Germany and Large Hadron Collider Physics 2014, New York, USA

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