Measurement of the top quark mass in the tt¯→dilepton channel from √s=8 TeV ATLAS data

Aloisio, Alberto; Alviggi, Mariagrazia; Canale, Vincenzo; Della Pietra, Massimo; Merola, Leonardo; Giordano, Raffaele; Conventi, Francesco; Rossi, Elvira; Carlino, Giampaolo; de Asmundis, Riccardo; Di Donato, Camilla; Doria, Aless; Ra,; Iengo, Paolo; Izzo, Vincenzo; Perrella, Sabrina; Sekhniaidze, Givi; Cirotto, Francesco; Collaboration, Atlas

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.042

The top quark mass is measured in the tt¯→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 tt¯→dilepton and tt¯→lepton+jets channels results in mtop=172.84±0.34 (stat)±0.61 (syst) GeV, with a total uncertainty of 0.70 GeV. © 2016 The Author

Measurement of the top quark mass in the tt¯→dilepton channel from √s=8 TeV ATLAS data / Aloisio, Alberto; Alviggi, Mariagrazia; Canale, Vincenzo; Della Pietra, Massimo; Merola, Leonardo; Giordano, Raffaele; Conventi, Francesco; Rossi, Elvira; Carlino, Giampaolo; de Asmundis, Riccardo; Di Donato, Camilla; Doria, Aless; Ra, ; Iengo, Paolo; Izzo, Vincenzo; Perrella, Sabrina; Sekhniaidze, Givi; Cirotto, Francesco; Atlas, Collaboration. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - 761:(2016), pp. 350-371. [10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.042]