Carlos Escobar Ibañez Vicente Lacuesta Miquel Maria Moreno Llácer Regina Moles-Valls
Andreas Wildauer
ATLAS Top Mass reconstruction in ttbar
events (lepton+jets channel)
Top Mass Physics Mo-va-ons
o Top quark mass is a fundamental parameter of the SM par-cle physics o Top quark was discovered by CDF & D0 in 1995.
Top Physics field was opened !!
o Top proper-es:
o Charge= (2/3)e , Spin = 1/2 o Large mass (mtop > 35mboQom)
o Present world average value, measured by CDF & D0 with Lint=5.8T‐1 , is:
mtop = (173.2 ± 0.56stat ± 0.76syst) GeV (arXiv:1107.5255v1 [hep‐ex] 26 Jul 2011
TOP QUARK MASS INTERESTING FIELDS:
• Top quark mass is an important parameter to the EW precision measurement:
• Large contribu-ons in radia-ve correc-ons:
• Constraint the Higgs Boson Mass
• Increase the sensi-vity to physics beyond SM
Top Quark at LHC
90% at LHC Gluon‐gluon fusion
10% at LHC
Quark‐AnVQuark scaXering
Top quark Produc/on
o Top quark is produced predominantly in pairs:
o LHC at √s = 7TeV σtop= 165+11‐16 pb (theore-cal NLO+NNLO) o Precision measurements and new searches
Top quark Decay
o Top quark decays take place almost exclusively t W+b
Dileptonic (11%)
• 2 leptons
• 2 neutrinos
• 2bbar
Semileptonic (44%)
• 1 lepton
• 1 neutrino
• 2 light jets
• 2bbar
FullHadronic (44%)
• 4 light jets
• 2bbar
b‐jet always hadronize
W decay?
TRIG lep+Etmiss lep+Etmiss mulV‐jets
Top Mass Analysis in ATLAS (lepton+jets)
The most precise top mass measurements can be achieved using semi‐leptonic channel:
B‐jet
ETmiss
Muon
Electron: Energy deposits in EM calorimeter with associated well reconstructed track in the ID Muon: Track segments different layers of muon chambers matched with ID track
Jets: An-‐kt4 algorithms is used star-ng from energy cluster of adjacent calorimeters jets.
Calibra-on is done using EM+HAD calorimeter informa-on. B‐jet tagger used ID in forma-on too
Trigger: Trigger is based on signatures of electron muons and jets, as well as missing transverse energy.
Full Detector Working !!!
Top Mass Analysis in ATLAS (lepton+jets)
The main methodology used to determine mtop at hadron collider consists of measuring the invariant mass of the decay products of the top‐quark candidate (mtopreco) and
deducing top mass using different methods.
EVENT SELECTION:
o Single electron or muon trigger fired o Only one reconstructed lepton:
• electron: pT>25GeV
• muon: pT>30GeV o Transverse energy:
• electron: Etmiss>35GeV & mT(W)>25GeV
• muon: ETmiss>20GeV & ETmiss+mT(W)>60GeV o At least 4 jets with pT>25GeV |η|<2.5
o One of these jets tagged as b‐jet (SV0>5.85)
Background:
o The background is under control
Top hadronic mass reconstrucVon:
o How the jet associaVon is done?
• Jet triplet with high pT and at least 1 b‐jet
• ΔR constraint between two light jets
• W mass window cut to improve the purity of the jet triplet
o Agreement Data/MC is important to understand the combinatorial background
o Precise knowledge of the Jet Energy Scale is needed to forbid possible ships in the mtopreco:
• In‐situ calibra-on
o Op-miza-on of the es-mator to limit systema-c errors
Top Mass Analysis in ATLAS (lepton+jets)
Muon channel
MW cut = ± 30
Muon channel
Top Mass Analysis in ATLAS (lepton+jets)
Top leptonic mass reconstrucVon:
o Difficult challenge comes from the kinema-c of the neutrino o ETmiss comes from undetected neutrino: ETmiss = pTν
o pzν chosed using W boson mass o b‐jet asignment
o How the b‐jet associaVon is done?
• Jet triplet with high pT
(usually pTmax method used)
• ΔR distance between b‐jet and W bosson
(closer b‐jet)
Muon channel
Top Mass Analysis in ATLAS (lepton+jets)
o Last ATLAS top mass results:
o 2‐dimensional template analysis o Lint= 0.7T‐1
Electron Channel
Muon Channel
o Systema-c errors
(electron) mtop = (173.9 ± 1.2stat ± 3.1syst) GeV (muon) mtop = (175.9 ± 1.0stat ± 2.7syst) GeV
o ATLAS has rediscover and re‐measured the top quark mass
• 2010 with a Lint=35.3pb‐1 :
(electron) mtop = (173.8 ± 6.7stat ± 4.8syst) GeV (muon) mtop = (166.7 ± 5.0stat ± 5.0syst) GeV
• 2011 with a Lint=0.7T‐1 :
(electron) mtop = (173.9 ± 1.2stat ± 3.1syst) GeV (muon) mtop = (175.9 ± 1.0stat ± 2.7syst) GeV
Summary of the Top Mass Analysis in ATLAS
mtop= (175 ± 0.9stat ± 2.7syst) GeV
The uncertainty of the results is domi‐
nated by the systema-c uncertain-es:
• JES Uncertainty for b‐jets and light‐jets
• Ini-al and final state radia-on
• Some aspects of the MC modelling Sta-s-c is increasing