https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3119-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Determination of the top quark mass circa 2013: methods, subtleties, perspectives
1
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010, Barcelona, Spain
2
Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain
3
High Energy Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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Theory Division, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, Canada
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Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik, KIT, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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IFIC (UVEG/CSIC), Ap. Correos 22085, 46071, Valencia, Spain
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
* e-mail: adm74@cam.ac.uk
Received:
19
October
2013
Accepted:
7
October
2014
Published online:
29
October
2014
We present an up-to-date overview of the problem of top quark mass determination. We assess the need for precision in the top mass extraction in the LHC era together with the main theoretical and experimental issues arising in precision top mass determination. We collect and document existing results on top mass determination at hadron colliders and map the prospects for future precision top mass determination at 
colliders. We present a collection of estimates for the ultimate precision of various methods for top quark mass extraction at the LHC.
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