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Measurement of the top quark mass using a profile likelihood approach with the lepton + jets final states in proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV

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Abstract

The mass of the top quark is measured in 36.3fb-1$$\,\text {fb}^{-1}$$ of LHC proton–proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at s=13TeV$$\sqrt{s}=13\,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V} $$. The measurement uses a sample of top quark pair candidate events containing one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state. For each event, the mass is reconstructed from a kinematic fit of the decay products to a top quark pair hypothesis. A profile likelihood method is applied using up to four observables per event to extract the top quark mass. The top quark mass is measured to be 171.77±0.37GeV$$171.77\pm 0.37\,\text {Ge}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V} $$. This approach significantly improves the precision over previous measurements.

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