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. 2019 Apr 29;79(5):368. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6863-8

Table 3.

The absolute uncertainties in mtMC and their sources, from the simultaneous fit of σtt¯ and mtMC. The MC statistical uncertainty is determined separately. The individual uncertainties are given without their correlations, which are however accounted for in the total uncertainties

Source Uncertainty (Ge)
Trigger 0.02
Lepton ident./isolation 0.02
Muon momentum scale 0.03
Electron momentum scale 0.10
Jet energy scale 0.57
Jet energy resolution 0.09
b tagging 0.12
Pileup 0.09
tt¯ ME scale 0.18
tW ME scale 0.02
DY ME scale 0.06
NLO generator 0.14
PDF 0.05
σtt¯ 0.09
Top quark pT 0.04
ME/PS matching 0.16
UE tune 0.03
tt¯ ISR scale 0.16
tW ISR scale 0.02
tt¯ FSR scale 0.07
tW FSR scale 0.02
b quark fragmentation 0.11
b hadron BF 0.07
Colour reconnection 0.17
DY background 0.24
tW background 0.13
Diboson background 0.02
W+jets background 0.04
tt¯ background 0.02
Statistical 0.14
MC statistical 0.36
Total mtMC uncertainty -0.73+0.68