Wan-Li Ju
Top quark pair production near threshold: single/double distributions and mass determination
Ju, Wan-Li; Wang, Guoxing; Wang, Xing; Xu, Xiaofeng; Xu, Yongqi; Yang, Li Lin
Authors
Guoxing Wang
Xing Wang
Xiaofeng Xu
Yongqi Xu
Li Lin Yang
Abstract
We investigate top quark pair production near the threshold where the pair invariant mass Mtt¯ approaches 2mt, which provides sensitive observables to extract the top quark mass mt. Using the effective field theory methods, we derive a factorization and resummation formula for kinematic distributions in the threshold limit up to the next-to- leading power, which resums higher order Coulomb corrections to all orders in the strong coupling constant. Our formula is similar to those in the literature but differs in several important aspects. We apply our formula to the Mtt¯ distribution, as well as to the double differential cross section with respect to Mtt¯ and the rapidity of the tt¯ pair. We find that the resummation effects significantly increase the cross sections near the threshold, and lead to predictions better compatible with experimental data than the fixed-order ones. We demonstrate that incorporating resummation effects in the top quark mass determination can shift the extracted value of mt by as large as 1.4 GeV. The shift is much larger than the estimated uncertainties in previous experimental studies, and leads to a value of the top quark pole mass more consistent with the current world average.
Citation
Ju, W., Wang, G., Wang, X., Xu, X., Xu, Y., & Yang, L. L. (2020). Top quark pair production near threshold: single/double distributions and mass determination. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(06), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282020%29158
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 25, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 25, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2020-06 |
Deposit Date | Jul 22, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 22, 2020 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Print ISSN | 1126-6708 |
Publisher | Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2020 |
Issue | 06 |
Article Number | 158 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282020%29158 |
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