Conveners
Jet Flavor
- Da Liu
- Anna Bennecke
Due to its large mass the top quark plays an important role in consistency checks of the Standard Model and new-physics searches. Studies concerning precise theoretical predictions of the top production and its decay are commonly based on the narrow-width (NW) limit of the top quark propagator or on full off-shell computations. The NW limit, where the top quark is treated as an on-shell...
We provide a quantitative interpretation for direct top quark mass measurements in terms of a field-theoretic mass scheme. A relation between the top quark mass parameter in Monte Carlo generators and the MSR mass at a scale of R = 3 GeV is derived. This is achieved by fitting Monte Carlo templates for the simulated jet mass distribution of large-radius jets containing a hadronically-decaying...
Accurate and precise calorimeter modeling presents one of the most significant computational bottlenecks in modern high-energy physics simulation chains. For this reason, extensive work has been done to speed up calorimeter simulation and make it more computationally efficient. A highly promising method for achieving this speed-up is generative machine learning (ML) models. However, most...