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A precise determination of the top-quark pole mass
The Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) provides a systematic way to
eliminate the renormalization scheme and renormalization scale uncertainties
for high-energy processes. We have observed that by applying PMC scale-setting,
one obtains comprehensive and self-consistent pQCD predictions for the
top-quark pair total cross-section and the top-quark pair forward-backward
asymmetry in agreement with the measurements at the Tevatron and LHC. As a step
forward, in the present paper, we determine the top-quark pole mass via a
detailed comparison of the top-quark pair cross-section with the measurements
at the Tevatron and LHC. The results for the top-quark pole mass are
GeV for the Tevatron with TeV,
GeV and GeV for the LHC with TeV
and TeV, respectively. Those predictions agree with the average,
GeV, obtained from various collaborations via direct
measurements. The consistency of the pQCD predictions using the PMC with all of
the collider measurements at different energies provides an important
verification of QCD.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures. Revised version to be published in Eur.Phys.J.
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