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. 2015 Apr 23;75(4):158. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3373-1

Table 3.

Compilation of investigated systematic uncertainties on the determined top-quark mass reported in Sect. 5. The three parts of the table correspond to uncertainties in the tt¯ and multijet background modelling, and uncertainties in the jet measurements

Signal modelling: Δmt ( GeV)
Method calibration 0.42
Trigger 0.01
Signal MC generator 0.30
Hadronisation 0.50
Fast simulation 0.24
Colour reconnection 0.22
Underlying event 0.08
ISR and FSR 0.22
Proton PDF 0.09
Pile-up 0.02
Background modelling: Δmt ( GeV)
Multijet background 0.35
Jet measurements: Δmt ( GeV)
Jet energy scale (see Table 4) 0.51
b-jet energy scale 0.62
Jet energy resolution 0.01
Jet reconstruction efficiency 0.01
b-tag efficiency and mistag rate 0.17
Soft contributions to missing energy 0.02
JVF scale factors 0.02
Total systematic uncertainty 1.22