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Measurement of the Jet Mass Distribution and Top Quark Mass in Hadronic Decays of Boosted Top Quarks in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV

par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego ;Bilin, Bugra ;Brun, Hugues ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Delannoy, Hugo ;Dorney, Brian ;Favart, Laurent ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur ;Popov, Andrey ;Postiau, Nicolas ;Starling, Elizabeth Rose ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Vannerom, David ;Malara, Andrea ; [et al.]
Référence Physical review letters, 124, 20, 202001
Publication Publié, 2020-05-22

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A measurement is reported of the jet mass distribution in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks produced in pp collisions at s=13 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The measurement is performed in the lepton+jets channel of tt events, where the lepton is an electron or muon. The products of the hadronic top quark decay t→bW→bqq′ are reconstructed as a single jet with transverse momentum larger than 400 GeV. The tt cross section as a function of the jet mass is unfolded at the particle level and used to extract a value of the top quark mass of 172.6±2.5 GeV. A novel jet reconstruction technique is used for the first time at the LHC, which improves the precision by a factor of 3 relative to an earlier measurement. This highlights the potential of measurements using boosted top quarks, where the new technique will enable future precision measurements.