%0 Journal Article %A Maekelae, Toni %A Hoang, André %A Lipka, Katerina %A Moch, Sven-Olaf %T Investigation of the scale dependence in the MSR and ―MS top quark mass schemes for the t―t invariant mass differential cross section using LHC data %J Journal of high energy physics %V 09 %N 9 %@ 1126-6708 %C Trieste %I SISSA %M PUBDB-2023-00006 %M DESY-23-001 %M arXiv:2301.03546 %M UWThPh-2023-1 %P 037 %D 2023 %Z 19 pages, 6 figures %X The computation of the single-differential top quark-antiquark pair (t―t) production cross section at NLO in the fixed-order expansion is examined consistently using the MSR and ―MS short-distance top quark mass schemes. A thorough investigation of the dependence of the t―t invariant mass spectrum on the renormalization scales R and μ<sub>m</sub> of the MSR mass m<sub>t</sub><sup>MSR</sup>(R) and ―MS mass ―m<sub>t</sub>(μ<sub>m</sub>), respectively, is carried out. We demonstrate that a scale choice of R ∼ 80 GeV is important for the stability of the cross-section predictions for the low t―t invariant mass range, which is important for a reliable extraction of the top quark mass. Furthermore, a choice of semi-dynamical renormalization and factorization scales is preferred. These findings are expected to remain valid once non-relativistic quasi-bound state effects are included in the low invariant mass region. %K top: mass (INSPIRE) %K scale: factorization (INSPIRE) %K differential cross section: mass (INSPIRE) %K scale: renormalization (INSPIRE) %K quark antiquark: pair (INSPIRE) %K GeV (INSPIRE) %K nonrelativistic (INSPIRE) %K stability (INSPIRE) %K interpretation of experiments: CERN LHC Coll (INSPIRE) %K mass spectrum (INSPIRE) %K scale dependence (INSPIRE) %K Quark Masses (autogen) %K Top Quark (autogen) %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001066019300002 %R 10.1007/JHEP09(2023)037 %U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/491140