| CMS Note | |
| Report number | CMS-NOTE-2017-004 ; CERN-CMS-NOTE-2017-004 |
| Title | Object definitions for top quark analyses at the particle level |
| Author(s) | CMS Collaboration |
| Publication | 2017 |
| Collaboration | CMS Collaboration |
| Imprint | 04 Jun 2017 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; CMS |
| Keywords | Physics |
| Abstract | The definition of the top quark at the particle level (pseudo-top) is discussed as a fundamental aspect of performing current and future measurements of differential production cross sections in both $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ and single top quark production. Starting from initial studies performed in the context of the LHCtopWG, an optimization of the definition of pseudo-tops is proposed in order to maximize the correlation of the reconstructed quantities with the parton-level definition. The implementations and their optimization are performed using RIVET as a common framework to avoid the introduction of a dependence on a specific Monte Carlo event generator. |
| Copyright/License | Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0) |
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