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Measurement of the top quark mass with lepton+jets final states using pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV
Eur. Phys. J. C 78 (2018) 891
Abstract: The mass of the top quark is measured using a sample of $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $ events containing one isolated muon or electron and at least four jets in the final state, collected by the CMS detector using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The events are selected from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. For each event the mass is reconstructed from a kinematic fit of the decay products to a $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $ hypothesis. Using the ideogram method, the top quark mass is determined simultaneously with an overall jet energy scale factor (JSF), constrained by the mass of the W boson in $ \mathrm{q\bar{q}'} $ decays. The measurement is calibrated on samples simulated at next-to-leading order matched to a leading-order parton shower. The top quark mass is found to be 172.25 $\pm$ 0.08 (stat+JSF) $\pm$ 0.62 (syst) GeV. The dependence of this result on the kinematic properties of the event is studied and compared to predictions of different models of $ \mathrm{t\bar{t}} $ production, and no indications of a bias in the measurements are observed.
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Figures

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Figure 1:
Invariant mass $m_ {\mathrm {W}}^\text {reco}$ of the two untagged jets (left) and invariant mass $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} ^\text {reco}$ of the two untagged jets and one of the b-tagged jets (right) after the b tagging requirement. For the simulated $ {{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}} $ events, the jet-parton assignments are classified as correct, wrong, and unmatched permutations as described in the text. The vertical bars show the statistical uncertainty on the data and the hatched bands show the systematic uncertainties considered in Section 5. The lower portion of each panel shows the ratio of the yields between data and the simulation. The simulations are normalized to the integrated luminosity.

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Figure 1-a:
Invariant mass $m_ {\mathrm {W}}^\text {reco}$ of the two untagged jets after the b tagging requirement. For the simulated $ {{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}} $ events, the jet-parton assignments are classified as correct, wrong, and unmatched permutations as described in the text. The vertical bars show the statistical uncertainty on the data and the hatched bands show the systematic uncertainties considered in Section 5. The lower portion of the panel shows the ratio of the yields between data and the simulation. The simulations are normalized to the integrated luminosity.

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Figure 1-b:
Invariant mass $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} ^\text {reco}$ of the two untagged jets and one of the b-tagged jets after the b tagging requirement. For the simulated $ {{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}} $ events, the jet-parton assignments are classified as correct, wrong, and unmatched permutations as described in the text. The vertical bars show the statistical uncertainty on the data and the hatched bands show the systematic uncertainties considered in Section 5. The lower portion of the panel shows the ratio of the yields between data and the simulation. The simulations are normalized to the integrated luminosity.

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Figure 2:
Reconstructed W boson masses $m_ {\mathrm {W}}^\text {reco}$ (left) and fitted top quark masses $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} ^\text {fit}$ (right) after the goodness-of-fit selection and the weighting by $P_\text {gof}$. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. 1. The simulations are normalized to the integrated luminosity.

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Figure 2-a:
Reconstructed W boson masses $m_ {\mathrm {W}}^\text {reco}$ after the goodness-of-fit selection and the weighting by $P_\text {gof}$. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. 1. The simulations are normalized to the integrated luminosity.

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Figure 2-b:
Fitted top quark masses $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} ^\text {fit}$ after the goodness-of-fit selection and the weighting by $P_\text {gof}$. Symbols and patterns are the same as in Fig. 1. The simulations are normalized to the integrated luminosity.

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Figure 3:
Measurements of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ as a function of the invariant mass of the $ {{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}} $ system $m_{{{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}}}$ (left) and the $\Delta R$ between the light-quark jets $\Delta R_{{{\mathrm {q}} {\overline {\mathrm {q}}} ^\prime}}$ (right) compared to different generator models. The filled circles represent the data, and the other symbols are for the simulations. For reasons of clarity, the horizontal bars indicating the bin widths are shown only for the data points and each of the simulations is shown as a single offset point with a vertical error bar representing its statistical uncertainty. The statistical uncertainty of the data is displayed by the inner error bars. For the outer error bars, the systematic uncertainties are added in quadrature.

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Figure 3-a:
Measurements of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ as a function of the invariant mass of the $ {{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}} $ system $m_{{{\mathrm {t}\overline {\mathrm {t}}}}}$ compared to different generator models. The filled circles represent the data, and the other symbols are for the simulations. For reasons of clarity, the horizontal bars indicating the bin widths are shown only for the data points and each of the simulations is shown as a single offset point with a vertical error bar representing its statistical uncertainty. The statistical uncertainty of the data is displayed by the inner error bars. For the outer error bars, the systematic uncertainties are added in quadrature.

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Figure 3-b:
Measurements of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ as a function of the $\Delta R$ between the light-quark jets $\Delta R_{{{\mathrm {q}} {\overline {\mathrm {q}}} ^\prime}}$ compared to different generator models. The filled circles represent the data, and the other symbols are for the simulations. For reasons of clarity, the horizontal bars indicating the bin widths are shown only for the data points and each of the simulations is shown as a single offset point with a vertical error bar representing its statistical uncertainty. The statistical uncertainty of the data is displayed by the inner error bars. For the outer error bars, the systematic uncertainties are added in quadrature.

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Figure 4:
Measurements of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ as a function of the $\Delta R$ between the b jets $\Delta R_{{{\mathrm {b}} {\overline {\mathrm {b}}}}}$ (left) and the light-quark jets $\Delta R_{{{\mathrm {q}} {\overline {\mathrm {q}}} ^\prime}}$ (right) compared to alternative models of color reconnection. The symbols and conventions are the same as in Fig. 3.

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Figure 4-a:
Measurements of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ as a function of the $\Delta R$ between the b jets $\Delta R_{{{\mathrm {b}} {\overline {\mathrm {b}}}}}$ compared to alternative models of color reconnection. The symbols and conventions are the same as in Fig. 3.

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Figure 4-b:
Measurements of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ as a function of the light-quark jets $\Delta R_{{{\mathrm {q}} {\overline {\mathrm {q}}} ^\prime}}$ compared to alternative models of color reconnection. The symbols and conventions are the same as in Fig. 3.
Tables

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Table 1:
Observed shifts with respect to the default simulation for different models of color reconnection. The "QCD inspired'' and "gluon move'' models are compared to the default model with ERDs. The statistical uncertainty in the JSF shifts is 0.1%.

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Table 2:
Observed shifts with respect to the default simulation for different generator setups. The statistical uncertainty in the JSF shifts is 0.1%.

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Table 3:
List of systematic uncertainties for the fits to the combined data set using the procedures described in Section 5. With the exception of the flavor-dependent JEC terms, the total systematic uncertainty is obtained from the sum in quadrature of the individual systematic uncertainties. The values in parentheses with indented labels are already included in the preceding uncertainty source. A positive sign indicates an increase in the value of $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ or the JSF in response to a $+1\sigma $ shift and a negative sign indicates a decrease. The statistical uncertainty in the shift in $ {m_{{\mathrm {t}}}} $ is given when different samples are compared. The statistical uncertainty in the JSF shifts is 0.1% for these sources.

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Table 4:
Compatibility of different models with the differential measurement of the top quark mass. For each variable and model, the probability of the cumulative $\chi ^2$ is computed. The setup with {powheg} v2 + {herwig++} does not use ME corrections to the top quark decay and shows large deviations from the data.
Summary
This study measured the mass of the top quark using the 2016 data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$, and POWHEG v2 interfaced with PYTHIA 8 with the CUETP8M2T4 tune for the simulation. The top quark mass is measured to be 172.25 $\pm$ 0.08 (stat+JSF) $\pm$ 0.62 (syst) GeV from the selected lepton+jets events. The result is consistent with the CMS measurements of Run 1 of the LHC at $\sqrt{s}=$ 7 and 8 TeV, with no shift observed from the new experimental setup and the use of the next-to-leading-order matrix-element generator and the new parton-shower simulation and tune. Along with the new generator setup, a more advanced treatment of the modeling uncertainties with respect to the Run 1 analysis is employed. In particular, a broader set of color-reconnection models is considered. The top quark mass has also been studied as a function of the event-level kinematic properties, and no indications of a bias in the measurements are observed.
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