# TOP-14-014 Determination of the top-quark mass from the mlb distribution in dileptonic ttbar events at √s = 8 TeV

## Abstract

The top-quark mass is determined by exploring the distribution of the invariant mass, , of the lepton and the b-quark originating from top-quark decays. The analysed data set was recorded at the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponds to a luminosity of 19.7/fb. A high-purity top-quark pair event sample with one electron, one muon and two jets is selected. The observed invariant mass distribution is confronted to theory predictions using a Monte Carlo simulation and a fixed-order calculation MCFM at leading and next-to-leading-order QCD. A top-quark mass of GeV is obtained using the prediction of the MadGraph simulation for the shape of the distribution. This result is consistent with other measurements at the LHC and with the world average.

## Public Document

The document CMS-PAS-TOP-14-014 is available here.

## Results

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Observed distribution as compared to the simulation using = 172.5 GeV. The data are represented by the bullets and their uncertainties are indicated by the vertical error bars. The simulated rates for signal and different background contributions are represented by the histogtams of different styles. The corresponding ratios of observed and predicted event rates are shown in the bottom panel. Here, the filled cyan area represents the statistical uncertainties on the prediction. The total uncertainty, comprising the statistical and systematic uncertainties is indicated by the hatched areas in both top and bottom panels. The systematic uncertainty do not account for the luminosity and the background normalization.
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The predicted absolute signal rates as a function of .
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The predicted relative signal rates as a function of .
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The response matrix, describing the detector effects, presented as a function of generated and reconstructed .
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Dependence of the event yields on the top mass hypothesis. The grey (red) bands represent with the band width showing the statistical uncertainty.
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The estimator as a function of .
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The normalized event yield for top-quark pair production at the LHC at =8 TeV, presented as a function of . The observed yields are shown by closed symbols, with error bars representing statistical uncertainty. For illustration, the predictions at =178.5 GeV (red band), =172.5 GeV (green band) and =166.5 GeV (blue band) are also shown. The width of the bands represent the statistical uncertainties of the predictions. The inlay picture illustrates the distributions for the ”shape” fit, as a function of .
The resulting top-quark mass value is GeV.
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The absolute event yield for top-quark pair production at the LHC at =8 TeV, presented as a function of . The observed yields are shown by closed symbols, with error bars representing the statistical uncertainty. The predictions at =178.5 GeV (red band), =172.5 GeV (green band) and =166.5 GeV (blue band) are shown. The width of the bands represent the statistical uncertainties of the predictions. The inlay picture illustrates the distributions for the ”shape+rate” fit as a function of .
The resulting top-quark mass value is GeV.
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The normalized event yield for top-quark pair production at the LHC at =8 TeV, presented as a function of . The observed yields are shown by closed symbols, with error bars representing statistical uncertainty. For illustration, the MCFM (NLO in production) predictions at =178.5 GeV (red band), =172.5 GeV (green band) and =166.5 GeV (blue band) are shown. The width of the bands represent the statistical uncertainties of the predictions. The inlay picture illustrates the distributions for the ”shape” fit as a function of .
The resulting top-quark mass value employing these MCFM predictions is GeV.
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Event distributions, shown as functions of the transverse momenta and pseudorapidities of the leading b-jet, the leading lepton, and the second leading lepton, respectively. The closed symbols denote the experimental measurement with the total uncertainty shown by the vertical error bars. The simulated rates for signal and different background contributions are represented by the histograms. The corresponding ratios of the observed and the predicted event rates are shown in the bottom panels. Here, the filled cyan areas represent statistical uncertainties on the prediction. These are combined with the systematic uncertainties into a total uncertainty, shown by the hatched areas in both top and bottom panels. The systematic uncertainties do not account for the luminosity and the background normalization.

-- AndreasMeyer - 01 Oct 2014

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