Published January 1, 2020 | Version v1
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Measurement of the top-quark mass in $t\overline{t}$ + 1-jet events collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV

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A determination of the top-quark mass is presented using 20.2 fb −1 of 8 TeV proton-proton collision data produced by the Large Hadron Collider and collected by the ATLAS experiment. The normalised differential cross section of top-quark pair production in association with an energetic jet is measured in the lepton+jets final state and unfolded to parton and particle levels. The unfolded distribution at parton level can be described using next-to-leading-order QCD predictions in terms of either the top-quark pole mass or the running mass as defined in the (modified) minimal subtraction scheme. A comparison between the experimental distribution and the theoretical prediction allows the top-quark mass to be extracted in the two schemes. The value obtained for the pole-mass scheme is:

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