ERC Starting Grant · 2024
A New Paradigm for High-Precision Top Mass and Jet Substructure Measurements at the LHC
We are in the era of precision collider physics, where a major challenge is to accurately describe the effects of the strong interactions. The precise determination of the top quark mass is one of the most important measurements in particle physics: it is crucial for indirect searches for new physics and the analysis of the stability of the universe. Currently, the measurement is plagued by theoretical imprecision, including an over-reliance on Monte Carlo simulations and the lack of a systematically improvable treatment of the physics of hadronization (the process by which quarks and gluons are bound into color-neutral hadrons). The same limitations also impact essentially all jet…
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