Combination of Measurements of the Top Quark Mass from Data Collected by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at s=7 and 8 TeV

Abstract

A combination of fifteen top quark mass measurements performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC is presented. The datasets used correspond to an integrated luminosity of up to 5 and <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mn>20</a:mn><a:mtext> </a:mtext><a:mtext> </a:mtext><a:msup><a:mi>fb</a:mi><a:mrow><a:mo>−</a:mo><a:mn>1</a:mn></a:mrow></a:msup></a:math> of proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. The combination includes measurements in top quark pair events that exploit both the semileptonic and hadronic decays of the top quark, and a measurement using events enriched in single top quark production via the electroweak <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><c:mi>t</c:mi></c:math> channel. The combination accounts for the correlations between measurements and achieves an improvement in the total uncertainty of 31% relative to the most precise input measurement. The result is <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><e:mrow><e:msub><e:mrow><e:mi>m</e:mi></e:mrow><e:mrow><e:mi>t</e:mi></e:mrow></e:msub><e:mo>=</e:mo><e:mn>172.52</e:mn><e:mo>±</e:mo><e:mn>0.14</e:mn><e:mrow><e:mo stretchy="false">(</e:mo><e:mi>stat</e:mi><e:mo stretchy="false">)</e:mo></e:mrow><e:mo>±</e:mo><e:mn>0.30</e:mn><e:mo stretchy="false">(</e:mo><e:mi>syst</e:mi><e:mo stretchy="false">)</e:mo><e:mtext> </e:mtext><e:mtext> </e:mtext><e:mi>GeV</e:mi></e:mrow></e:math>, with a total uncertainty of 0.33 GeV. © 2024 CERN, for the CMS and ATLASs Collaboration 2024 CERN