Top Quark Mass from the Tevatron and LHC Colliders

Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Bologna Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127 - Bologna, Italy

^a e-mail: brigliad@bo.infn.it

Published online: 24 March 2015

Abstract

The discovery of the top quark in 1995 has been one of the great successes of the CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Since then, many measurements of the top quark properties have been performed in different channels and using many methods. The importance of measuring its mass lies in the possibility of verifying the predictions and the consistency of the Standard Model as well as in setting constraints on possible, still unobserved, physics. In 2010, the new CERN experiments, ATLAS and CMS, started to measure the top quark properties exploiting the large amount of data collected at the Large Hadron Collider. In March 2014, the very first combination of measurements from all the four experiments has been performed yielding M_top = 173.34 ± 0.76 GeV, with a precision below 0.5%. In these proceedings a selected review of the most recent or relevant results obtained by the Tevatron and LHC Collaborations is presented.