Top-quark mass measurement in the all-hadronic tt¯ decay channel at s√ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

The top-quark mass is measured in the all-hadronic top-antitop quark decay channel using proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data set used in the analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb−1. The large multi-jet background is modelled using a datadriven method. The top-quark mass is obtained from template fits to the ratio of the three-jet to the dijet mass. The three-jet mass is obtained from the three jets assigned to the top quark decay. From these three jets the dijet mass is obtained using the two jets assigned to the W boson decay. The top-quark mass is measured to be 173.72 ± 0.55 (stat.) ± 1.01 (syst.) GeV